The Importance of Seed, Frank Morton
Frank Morton has been breeding and selecting seed for more than 25 years. In this video, he talks about the importance of seed and how the interaction between seed and human changed both.
Category: Media
CDs, DVDs, and videos to challenge, interest, or excite you.
Chow Down (Video) by Julia Grayer & Gage Johnston
While we usually include books in this category, this video is an excellent look at what we eat and how it affects us. Chow Down looks at the struggle to reverse severe heart disease …. with diet.
The Honey Trail: In Pursuit of Liquid Gold and Vanishing Bees by Grace Pundyk
This unique book not only questions the state of our environment and the impact it is having on bees and honey, it also takes readers on an adventure across Yemeni deserts and Borneo jungles, through the Mississippi Delta and Tasmania’s rainforests, over frozen Siberian snowscapes and ancient Turkish villages all in search of the liquid gold known as honey.
Tom Stearns, Founder of High Mowing Organic Seeds
Tom Stearns talks about co-marketing, organic farming as a business, scale – small is beautiful, but medium is good too – and collaborating with other small/medium farmers.
The Compassionate Carnivore by Catherine Friend
Friend approaches her subject from the perspective of a farmer. She participates actively in raising lambs and ducks that eventually wind up on people’s tables, her own included. Given the environmental impact of animal husbandry, many people question if eating meat can be sustainable in this era of global warming.
The Earth’s Best Story by Ron and Arnie Koss
The Earth’s Best Story tells how Ron and Arnie Koss succeeded in creating the first nationally distributed organic foods company to sit next to its mainstream competition on supermarket shelves-a step that revolutionized and empowered the organic-foods movement as a whole-and benefited hundreds of farmers as well as the millions of babies whose very first foods have been organically grown, thanks to Earth’s Best.
Stirring It Up: How to Make Money and Save the World by Gary Hirshberg
Gary Hirshberg is the CE-Yo of Stonyfield Farm Yogurt. In Stirring It Up, Hirshberg describes how he built a successful $300 million-per-year business by incorporating environmental principles and practices, and how other companies can accomplish this, too.
Do Something Reel
For “Earth Month” (April), Whole Foods Market is sponsoring the Whole Foods Market Do Something Reel Film Festival, in support of the company’s core values which include “caring about our communities and our environment.”