Urban Farming Videos

Laura Lamb reviews Homegrown, a movie about a family of urban homesteaders in California who produce all their own food on a city lot. Dubbing their efforts The Path to Freedom, the Dervaes Family have transformed their urban property into a micro-farm. To find out more about Redeye, check out our website.

Laura Lamb reviews Homegrown, a movie about a family of urban homesteaders in California who produce all their own food on a city lot. Dubbing their efforts The Path to Freedom, the Dervaes Family have transformed their urban property into a micro-farm. To find out more about Redeye, check out our website.

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.

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.