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What began as a mere hobby has become an award winning cheese business for Gayle and Jim Tanner. Visit http://tinyurl.com/lwgv38 to see the rest of episode 501. The Monsanto Company – http://www.monsanto.com and the American Farm Bureau Federation – http://www.fb.org make presentation of America’s Heartland possible.

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An introduction to Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) with a focus on sustainability and fresh, local food.

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Presentation by Balu Bumb (IFDC) at the IFPRI Panel Discussion, “Smart Input Subsidies and Sustainable Agricultural Development,” July 24, 2009, Washington, DC

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Women in agriculture play as many different roles as their male counterparts. For more of Episode 319 visit: http://tinyurl.com/5r5unp. The Monsanto Company – http://www.monsanto.com and the American Farm Bureau Federation – http://www.fb.org make presentation of America’s Heartland possible.

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This video contains information about how the world needs to be more sustainable, more specifically in agriculture.

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ABC 7 NEWS REPORT, September 28, 2006

The Dervaes family runs Path to Freedom, an urban homesteading project, in Pasadena. Since the ’80s the family has transformed their city lot into an organic permaculture garden. The yard features more than 350 varieties of plants which are either edible or used for other purposes. The garden supplies the family with their food year round. The family sells some of their greens to local restaurants. Doing this gives them money to purchase solar panels and energy efficient appliances. The solar panels provide their home with power and they use a solar oven to cook food on sunny days.
(Note: news segment mistakenly mentions the goats were producing milk. They ARE dairy goats and can produce milk, but like all mammals, they only lactate when pregnant or nursing babies. We haven’t bred our two goats yet. )

FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT: http://www.pathtofreedom.com

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Paul Ryan visits the annual Antique Farm Exposition in central Washington – one of the many gatherings across the heartland celebrating the rural experience. Visit http://tinyurl.com/8potj7
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On April 19, three University of Arizona students – Eller College MBAs Kyle VanderLugt and Mauricio Torres-Benavides, and environmental science graduate student Rafael Martinez – topped the P3 Student Design Competition for Sustainability in Washington, D.C. The competition, sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, encourages college students to apply technology in innovative ways to tackle global environmental challenges.

The trio was awarded $75,000 in prize money, which will be used to fund implementation of their project in collaboration with the Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco in Mexico, beginning this summer.

VanderLugt, also a doctoral student in environmental science, has spent the past two years developing the project. Its a combination of agriculture and aquaculture [fish farming], he explains. The process uses fish waste to nourish plants; the water is purified by the soil, which in turn cycles back to the fish. Its a closed system, VanderLugt adds. Theres no fertilizer, no pesticides, and a 90 percent recapture of the water. Its a highly water-conservative process.

The system, called re-circulating integrated agriculture aquaculture or RIAA, is designed for use in small communities in underdeveloped nations. The technology is simple and scalable, and can be implemented for basic subsistence farming as well economic growth, VanderLugt says.

Start-up costs for the system run about $500. Even this modest initial cost can be daunting to communities in underdeveloped nations, points out Torres-Benavides. But this type of project is ideal for microfinancing, and once the system is up and running, the community will realize a return very quickly. VanderLugt adds that the team hopes to partner with NGOs and academic cooperatives to expand the concept to communities in Africa, east Asia, and South America.

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A series introduction about Sustainable Agriculture in Chile hosted by El Gringito.

More to follow! Stay tuned!

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Visit us on the web for more video stories, and information: Cooking Up a Story (http://cookingupastory.com). Fred Kirschenmann steadfastly warns us, conventional agriculture, and its heavy dependence upon fossil fuels, and irrigated water, simply will not continue to offer a viable means for feeding the world. We have been drawing upon natures reserves of stored energy (hydrocarbons) and water resources at unsustainable rates, and those finite resources are diminishing rapidly; technology alone, will not provide substitute solutions. The argument that conventional agriculture (modern industrial farming) is necessary in order to meet the needs of a growing global population, simply ignores the realities of the elephants in the room. Sustainability, with an emphasis upon the concept of resiliency, and a renewed respect for maintaining the fertility (quality) of the soil, is to Kirschenmann now, the foundation of a new food system toward creating a food revolution.

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