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Home Grown is a photographic exploration of local food production and sustainable farming in Vancouver and the surrounding region, presented by MOV and FarmFolkCityFolk. For more on this project please visit - http://www.museumofvancouver.ca/exhibitions/exhibit/home-grown-local-sustainable-food and http://www.ffcf.bc.ca/programs/past_projects.html As part of Fire and Light Media Group's "Meet your farmer" short documentary series, we spoke with…
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Eric Maundu is a computer scientist originally from Kenya. A decade ago, he began to experiment with water-based farming systems, called aquaponics. Recently, he started Kijiji Grows, an organization dedicating to teaching Oakland school children about science, art and life skills through aquaponics. Maundu is also working to bring the technology to Kenya. Audio by Jill Replogle; Photos by Bagassi Koura
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(Edited) Author and activist Michael Pollan is a passionate advocate for sustainable food. In his compelling talk at PopTech, he explores how our industrial food system is keeping us overly dependent on fossil fuels, destroying our environment, and making us sick. Breaking this cycle requires fundamentally changing our relationship to food - and eating more meals together.
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Will Allen is co-founder and director of Growing Power, Inc., an organization that is transforming the production and delivery of healthy foods to underserved, urban populations. Growing Power operates as an urban farm and education center in Milwaukee, WI, and more recently, Chicago, teaching urban youth how to produce low-cost healthy foods for their communities.
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Aquaponics is a relatively new approach to food production that cultivates fish and plants in a symbiotic relationship. The OrganicNation.tv crew traveled to Flanagan, Illinois where Myles Harston of AquaRanch Industries has been working with aquaponics 1992. At his innovative facility, Myles grows tilapia and a wide variety of organic vegetables including lettuce, kale, chard, herbs, tomatoes, and hot peppers. For more information about Aquaranch…
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