Videos: Local Food
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Ava Chin at Storytelling and Food – Ava Chin
Change FoodHi, everybody. Can you hear me alright, just out of curiosity? Okay. I can project because I used to be a slam poet. This is a food poem called “Wun Yee. Muk Yee. Cloud Ear Fungus. Does it grow on land or in the sea?” My grandfather holds the tiny cloud ears running under a […]
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Logistics – Our Local Food Blind Spot – Michael Rozyne
TEDxManhattanMichael Rozyne explains the ways in which the current industrial food system creates logistical and geographic gaps. It encourages durable, low-cost products and year-round supply rather than more sustainability or fair prices to farmers. Get the good food movement involved at every stop along the supply chain of produce, from picking to packing to shipping […]
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How I Did Less and Ate Better, Thanks to Weeds – Tama Matsuoka Wong
TEDxManhattanTama Matsuoka Wong was a corporate attorney. Now she’s a forager. When she started gardening in her New Jersey backyard, she quickly realized that weeds would take over her garden. Tama tells us about her Japanese culture and realizing that what some call “weeds” are delicacies in other parts of the world.
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New Roads to New Markets – Patty Cantrell
TEDxManhattanAll people must have access to healthy food and the means to producing it. Patty Cantrell challenges everyone to recognize and invest in the pathways and networks that get local food to market in our communities.
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Recirculating Farms: Building a Healthy, Sustainable Food Culture – Marianne Cufone
TEDxManhattanThe United States imports about 86% of the seafood we consume, half of which is farmed. Marianne Cufone explains how recirculating farms use clean, recycled water in place of soil to grow plants and fish together (aquaponics).
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Veterans Food Production Program – Howard Hinterthuer
TEDxManhattanTEDxManhattan Challenge 2012 winner, Howard Hinterthuer, discusses the organic therapy program for Veterans with PTSD. Gardening has been found to be very helpful to recovery.
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Local Food, Immigrant Farmers – Michelle Hughes
TEDxManhattanImmigrants have always been the foundation of agriculture in the United States. Immigrants continue to bring agricultural knowledge into the country where the population of farmer’s has decreased from 96% to 2%. The New Farmer Development Project helps immigrant farmers with technical assistance and training designed to ensure the long-term viability of participating farms and farmland.
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BrightFarms – A Produce Supply Chain Revolution – Paul Lightfoot
TEDxManhattanMost produce travels hundreds or thousands of miles to get to the grocery store shelves. It travels well, but taste and flavor are sacrificed for longevity. How about zero-miles-to-store? Paul Lightfoot tells us about Bright Farms which finances and builds greenhouse farms on the roofs of grocery stores. Now that’s “Fresh!”
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AmpleHarvest.org – A Homegrown Solution to Hunger – Gary Oppenheimer
TEDxManhattan50 Million people in the United States are hungry, meaning they do not have enough food to feed their families. Food drives can help, but what about fresh, perishable food? Goodwill and technology comes together in AmpleHarvest.org to connect home gardeners with excess food and local food pantries.
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Rebuilding our Food System Infrastructure – Michael Conard
TEDxManhattanMichael Conard, Assistant Director at the Urban Design Lab, part of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, discusses the new distribution systems needed for changing the food system.
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Dinner Makes a Difference – Laurie David
TEDxManhattanProducer of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth,” Laurie David has authored best-selling books, executive produced television specials & documentaries and has been called the Bono of climate change by Vanity Fair. Now she’s bringing it all home to her kitchen table.
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From New York to Africa, Why Food is Saving the World – Brian Halweil
TEDxManhattanLong live the Food Movement! Brian Halweil, publisher of “Edible Manhattan,” discusses the problems with the global food system and the solutions he’s found cropping up everywhere.