Online video offers wonderful opportunities to inspire, educate, and encourage students and aspiring farmers. We encourage teachers and parents to watch these videos with students and discuss the opinions presented.
NOTE: The videos below are all available for viewing online for free. These videos have not been rated – please view before presenting to children to ensure suitability for your audience.
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Farming as a Career:
Voices of Experience from the NY Beginning Farmer Project:
Fridays at the Farm by Coyopa Productions: 19min 07sec
Farming is Hard, Rewarding Work:
4H Career Explorers: http://www.youtube.com/user/cornellsmallfarms#p/a/u/0/pPRdB8pF1F8
Farming Hot Among Hipsters:http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2010/07/22/am.costello.hipster.farmers.cnn
Peter Carrol for Cornell Small Farms program http://exposureroom.com/members/sidw54
Organization/Club Media:
The Greenhorns: http://thegreenhorns.net -
FFA: ‘It’s Time’, NY FFA president retiring speech: http://www.teachertube.com/music.php?music_id=2932&title=_quot_It_s_Time_quot_&ref=juleahfaye
The Greenhorns: Sacremento Valley Mixer http://www.vimeo.com/17207786
Just For Fun:
Water and Poo, A Song about Nutrient Management: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAUw9GO6tgE
Yeo Valley Advertising: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOHAUvbuV4o
Birke Baehr: What’s Wrong with Our Food System http://www.ted.com/talks/birke_baehr_what_s_wrong_with_our_food_system.html
The Food Project, Sustainable Agriculture Curriculum, http://thefoodproject.org/sustainable-agriculture-curriculum, accessed May 27, 1010
National FFA Organization, Agri-Entrepreneurship Program: Now Available – Lesson Plans, http://www.ffa.org/index.cfm?method=c_programs.AgEntrepreneurship, accessed May 27, 2010
Vocational Information Center, Agriculture, Horticulture, Culinary, Food Science and Environment Lesson Plans, http://www.khake.com/page81.html accessed May 27, 2010
New England Small Farm Institute. Exploring the Small Farm Dream,http://www.smallfarm.org/main/for_service_providers/exploring_the_small_farm_dream/
Gardener, Malcolm and Susan. Becoming a Biodynamic Farmer or Gardener:A handbook for prospective trainees, Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association, 2007http://www.biodynamics.com/node/13
UC Santa Cruz, The Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems.Exploring Sustainability in Agriculture: An Online Sustainable Agriculture Instructional Resource.http://casfs.ucsc.edu/education/instruction/esa/index.html
Arthur M. Blank Foundation, ‘Farm to Table to Kid: Increasing Access to Healthy and Affordable Food’, Saturday May 22, 2010, http://blankfoundation.org/news/SpeakerSeries.html, accessed May 27, 2010
Rodale Institute, Transitioning to Organic, Course Tools. http://www.tritrainingcenter.org/code/index.php
Georgia Organics: Fundamentals of organic Farming http://www.georgiaorganics.org/curriculum/index.html
Timber Press: How to Grow a School Garden: A Complete Guide for Parents and Teachers: http://www.timberpress.com/books/how_grow_school_garden/bucklin-sporer/9781604690002
“Introducing Farm Club, Because Farming is Cool” by Orren Fox http://civileats.com/2010/08/19/introducing-farm-club-because-farming-is-cool/#more-9082
Information for beginning farmers.
