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A sustainable agriculture degree program is a young and growing one at the University of Kentucky. Each year during UK’s spring break, sustainable ag-major students enrolled in a senior level “capstone” class get the chance to see different types of agriculture and food systems around the country by going on a study trip. This year’s tour took a northern route from Kentucky through Amish country in Ohio and Pennsylvania to some urban farming in Baltimore, eventually ending up in Western Virginia and Eastern Kentucky. The trip gave the students lots to see and even more to think about. I made a video montage of organic lettuce, peppers, swiss chard and radish in my indoor garden using macro photography. I also have an update of my hydroponic lettuce in a recycled 2 liter soda bottle. Read more on Vegetable Montage & 2 Liter Bottle Hydroponic [...] What’s the deal with organic fruits and vegetables?Learn how to shop for healthy foods to improve your diet and nutrition in this free video. Expert: Lisa La Barr Bio: Lisa La Barr is AFPA certified, a WAPF member, and a personal nutrition and wellness expert in Beverly Hills. Filmmaker: Nili Nathan Read more on How to Shop for Healthy Foods : Eating Organic Fruits & [...] FULL INFO AT: www.HomeOrganicGarden.net Have you ever considered growing your own organic vegetables from home? If you think it is hard work or to difficult, then I want to share with you how I grow my own organic vegetables from home. The reason why I started growing my own vegetables was, because I realized that most vegetables that are grown commercially are sprayed with chemicals that are harmful to our bodies. I have been an organic farmer for 4 years growing organic vegetables on a commercial level. In my research before I started with this, I have found shocking information on chemical sprays that are used by commercial farmers that causes all sorts of diseases. After meeting a friend that had been exposed to chemical sprays working on a farm that did tunnel farming, I decided to change my focus to organic farming. He has picked up permanent brain damage from working with chemical sprays in tunnels. Therefore I would like to show you how to grow organic vegetables from home by following a few simple guidelines. Easy steps on how to grow your own vegetables from home are as follows Tools you will need to plan the layout of your garden: * Spade, rope, and 4 to 6 wooden mark sticks with sharpened ends.Take the wooden sticks and mark of the area by planting them into the ground. Take the rope and tie it to the wooden sticks to get an idea of how big the garden is going to be. For beginners don’t go to big at the beginning. Make sure the area get full sun for at least 6 … Read more on How to Grow Organic Alfalfa Sprouts in Your Home Garden Gardening [...] Whole Foods Market offers a quick introduction to the basics of organic farming. Learn some of the principles of organic agriculture, as well as hear from several farmers who choose to farm organically. Yeo Valley film promoting the benefits of organic farming
An expert shows how to plant seeds for an organic garden, with tips on how deep to plant the seeds, how far apart to space the plants, how much to water, and more, in this free gardening video lesson. Expert: Gale Gassiot Bio: Gale Gassiot makes her own organic compost or “gardener’s black gold.” Read more on How to Raise Organic Vegetables : How to Plant [...] This is a video of an Urban Food Farm in Los Angeles. It’s a sustainable food solution that is sold as a complete home garden growing kit and includes the greenhouse, irrigation, fertilization, all the hydroponics channels, the soil-less growing medium and even seeds. This complete home garden greenhouse kit is available for sale from urbanfoodfarms.com It requires very low maintenance but I still spend about 4 hours a week in it just because I enjoy it so much. There is no growing experience needed, anyone can successfully grow organic vegetables with this home garden greenhouse kit. I left for 2 weeks, i was amazed at how everything grew during that time. The only thing that did not work is the asparagus, it must be too hot for it. It grew very thin and tall and some started to make branches; I had to remove it. I love having my eatable garden in the parking lot of the building where i live. I love the idea of being sustainable, having reduced my carbon footprint and improved the freshness and quality of the vegetables I eat. I did not use to buy organic vegetables at the supermarket and now I get to eat organic vegetables every day and still don’t have to buy them; sorry Whole Foods, sorry Trader Joe. This video has a photo montage of some of the vegetable plants at different stages over a month. It shows 3 of 4 pictures of the same plant making it easy to see how much it grew in that period. List of the organic vegetables I grow in my 8×8 complete greenhouse kit home … Come see where your food is grown — it’s our Farm Tour Season! On the second Saturday of every month, Farm Fresh to You ( www.farmfreshtoyou.com ) invites visitors out to their Capay Organic Farm to learn about organic farming, harvest a little fresh produce from the field and listen to live music. Guests can also enjoy a picnic in the farm garden, visit the farm animals, take part in arts & crafts activities for the kids and simply relax and soak up the beautiful farm scenery. Hope to see you there! For more information on our upcoming events and farm tours, please visit the Events Page on our website at http In this video: For the first farm tour of the season, visitors to our Capay Organic Farm enjoyed tractor rides to the asparagus fields where they harvested tender, fresh shoots. Live bluegrass music was provided by The Bottom Dwellers of Woodland (bottomdwellersmusic.com) and art activities were provided by Jesse Pruet from Winters. Video by Tim Myers. |
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