Videos: Farmers
Want to Host a Screening? Bring Change Food Videos to your community! Follow our Event Guide for tips & suggestions.
-
Changing Our Food System Starts with Changing Our View of Farmers | Loren Cardeli | Change Food Fest
Change FoodLoren Cardeli, the founder and president of A Growing Culture, implores us to embrace farmers. He shares his views about the importance of farmer autonomy and farmer rights, connecting social justice and environmental justice, and the need for community. Loren wants to change the our view of the food movement, moving farmers to the forefront […]
-
Change Food By Not Changing Food | Paul Willis | Change Food Fest
Change FoodPaul Willis, farmer and founder of Niman Ranch Pork Co., talks about changing food by not changing. Going against large factory farms and sticking with what he knew – high animal welfare, certification, animals raised without antibiotics, by family farmers – Paul created a space for changing food by not changing what he was doing.
-
Everything You Ever Need to Know: Youth Learn to Earn at the Farm | Tessa Edick | Change Food Fest
Change FoodTessa Edick, founder of the FarmOn! Foundation, talks about the struggles with succession in farming, and teaching the next generation to be excited about the opportunity. FarmOn! Foundation helps to shift the paradigm, teaching kids the business of food with real skill sets as they live on the property, using the farm as a classroom.
-
Creating a Local Food System | Cary Junior | Change Food Fest
Change FoodCary Junior, general manager of SEMPA, a rural farmer cooperative for farmers of color, is creating a local food system to get good food into food insecure areas in Detroit. They are creating jobs, supporting farmers, creating a connection with young urban farmers and rural farmers between Detroit and Ann Arbor. These two equations are […]
-
Age of the Farmer
Half Magic Films“65 is the average age of farmers, and there are not enough young farmers to replace them. How did we get here?”** In the summer of 2015, Eva Verbeeck asked me to join her on a trip throughout the Pacific Northwest to produce a short film on young farmers
-
Farming Forward
Center for Environmental FilmmakingFor decades, agricultural run-off from farms has been a source of criticism by environmental groups concerned about the health of the Chesapeake Bay. However, with the guidance of scientists, environmentalists, and the general public, farmers are beginning to make broad changes
-
Farmers in a Dangerous Time – Angela Moran
TEDxVictoriaThe backdrop of Angela Moran’s childhood ranged through rust-belt towns; from Niagara Falls, ON to Detroit, MI, and more. Boarded up downtown cores and dilapidated buildings were completely normal sights… until Angela planted a tree as a teenager.
-
Funding Female Farmers for a Less Hungry World – Danielle Nierenberg
Food TankFunding Female Farmers for a Less Hungry World. A new video from Danielle Nierenberg, Food Tank, and the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR).
-
Farming for the Future
Prince Charitable TrustsSome farmers are trying innovative farm management techniques and practices to nourish their land and sustain their farms for future generations. Cliff Miller of Mount Vernon Farm in the Piedmont region of Virginia is one such farmer.
-
50 Years of Farming: For Love & Vegetables
Prince Charitable TrustsOrganic farmers in Tysons Corner, Va. reflect on a half-century of sustainable and community-focused agriculture. Learn about the amazing people behind Potomac Vegetable Farms (PVF) and how they produce and market their locally grown vegetables in the DC/Maryland/Virginia region. Potomac Vegetable Farms has been growing and selling delicious and nutritious vegetables for over 50 years. We steward […]
-
The Human Cost of Conflict Palm Oil
Rainforest Action NetworkWhat’s really in that snack food? Too frequently, the answer is palm oil produced with modern day slavery, child labor, and worker and human rights abuses. Sacrificing the lives, health, and safety of the people who work on palm oil plantations is far too high a price to pay for the cheap palm oil used […]
-
The Soil Story – Pashon Murray
Kiss the GroundIn collaboration with Kiss the Ground, Pashon Murray of Detroit Dirt narrates this story of soil and how it could save our planet and reverse climate change. Building healthy soil has the miraculous ability to sequester carbon from the atmosphere. It’s a story that has to be shared with the world. And it’s not just […]