Urban Farming Videos

In a Brooklyn inner-city community residents are fighting to keep their farm. The Bed-Stuy farm, once a neighborhood garbage dump, was transformed into an urban oasis that produces over 7,000 lbs of fresh food every year, helping feed more than 4000 people a month through an emergency food pantry. The farm is a source of community pride that has inspired neighborhood greening, backyard food gardening and food pantry agriculture projects. It is a constant reminder to residents that better nutrition and healthy eating are within our grasp. Now, though, the farm is threatened by development. Watch the video and learn how you can help preserve the Bed-Stuy Farm.

In a Brooklyn inner-city community residents are fighting to keep their farm. The Bed-Stuy farm, once a neighborhood garbage dump, was transformed into an urban oasis that produces over 7,000 lbs of fresh food every year, helping feed more than 4000 people a month through an emergency food pantry. The farm is a source of community pride that has inspired neighborhood greening, backyard food gardening and food pantry agriculture projects. It is a constant reminder to residents that better nutrition and healthy eating are within our grasp. Now, though, the farm is threatened by development. Watch the video and learn how you can help preserve the Bed-Stuy Farm.

This short documentary features a remarkable young economic development engine in Louisville, KY started by coffee shop owners Mike Mays and Gary Heine (of Heine Brothers' Coffee). Their concept was to compost their coffee grounds, and turn this waste into wealth. Mr. Brock's story illustrates how this simple idea evolved into their current vermicomposting and urban farming operations in just a few short years. MacArthur Foundation Fellow Will Allen is interviewed, along with Gary Heine, Mike Mays, Sarah Fritschner, and others.

At 3:00 a.m., Novella Carpenter is in the backyard of her home in downtown Oakland. Her neighbor has lent her a gun. She holds it, thinks about it, but decides her trusty shovel is the weapon of choice. She kills the opossum who's just broken the neck of her beloved goose and also sent her duck to an early death. Carpenter's doing farm work. She says urban farming isn't a new concept. It's just new to the first world. In her talk at Town Hall Seattle on June 24, 2009, she explains how she got started, tells more city farming stories, and shares tips on getting going yourself. Namely: begin with bees, the gateway animal. Carpenter's the author of Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer. Elliott Bay Book Company co sponsored her talk with Town Hall Center for Civic Life.

City Farmer, Vancouver Canada Interview by Valentina Biagini, Responsibility.TV Filmed by Roberto Pecchi August 2006

keith is going to look after the garden while i'm working in van over the next few months starting by planting the garlic that i should have planted a while ago.

Keeping agriculture sustainable increasingly means keeping it local. Besides the environmental benefit of reducing reliance on fossil-fuel guzzling transportation, eating local food is a more seasonal and often healthier experience. With concern about food security growing, it might turn out to be safer, too. The folks in charge of the Science Barge, a new urban farming experiment in New York, are bringing local food production closer than ever. In this video we take a tour of the floating greenhouse facility, which is designed as a demonstration of how urban space, especially rooftop space in big cities like New York, can be used to efficiently produce food. Self-powered by solar panels, wind turbines, and a biodiesel generator, the Science Barge uses state of the art computer technology and an agricultural technique called hydroponics to grow fruits and veggies using much less water and space than field farming. Watch out, city slickers. Farm country is coming to your neighborhood.