Posted on 02 September 2010. Tags: arizona-california, desert-garden, desert-gardening, desert-soil, drip-irrigation, george-brookbank, hot-weather, mexico-nevada, oriental-vegetables, poisonous-chemicals, tree-varieties
Price: $15.30
Desert gardening is different!
Wherever you live in the desertup to 3,500-feet elevationthis guide is for you. Enjoy plentiful fruits and vegetables from your desert garden. Desert gardening expert George Brookbank will help you with your desert garden. A tremendous reference tool you’ll use all year ’round!
1. Complete how-to-do-it guide
-Drip irrigation & watering
-How to prepare desert soil
-Which plant & tree varieties to choose
-Citrus: Watering, pruning, fertilizing
2. New varieties for favorites:
-Tomatoes Strawberries
-Grapes Melons
And the unusual:
-Low-chill apples
-Oriental Vegetables
-Yard-long beans
New chapters on Hydroponics and Alternatives to Poisonous Chemicals
3. Week-by-week desert calendar:
Learn how to work with the desert’s short seasons, hot weather, insects and soils
-When to plant
-When to prune
Great for Arizona, California, New Mexico, Nevada and Texas.
Posted in Organic Gardening
Posted on 27 August 2010. Tags: ann-lovejoy, chemical-fertilizers, color-photographs, good-soil, ornamental-garden, pest-control, popular-guide, splendid-results
Price: $20.40
In this updated second edition of the popular guide, Ann Lovejoy explains how to create a gorgeous ornamental garden following the principles and techniques of organic and sustainable gardening. Emphasizing good soil prep, composting, drainage, mulching, and proper plant selection, the book covers every step from landscaping and design to soil prep to planting beds, all with the goal of creatinga lovely garden without chemical fertilizers or pest control. Janet Loughrey’s color photographs show the splendid results.
The Ann Lovejoy Handbook of Northwest Gardening: Natural , Sustainable, Organic
Posted in Organic Gardening
Posted on 25 August 2010. Tags: companion, gardener, pests, photographic-guide, plants, rodale, successful-organic-gardening
Price: $22.70
An A-to-Z, photographic guide to organic gardening provides complete instructions for combining plants that repel pests and enhance one another’s growth. By the author of The Harvest Gardener. Simultaneous.
Posted in Organic Gardening
Posted on 11 August 2010. Tags: encyclopedia-of-organic-gardening, gardener, indispensable-resource, rodale
Price: $36.08
Rodale’s All-New Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening: The Indispensable Resource for Every Gardener
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Posted on 08 August 2010. Tags: beautiful-flowers, chemicals, encyclopedia-of-organic-gardening, fruits-and-vegetables, gardener, organic-garden, quality-herbs, rodale, top-quality
Whether an experienced gardener is looking to go organic or a beginner wants to create a healthy, eco-friendly garden, the Rodale’s Illustrated Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening contains the tips and techniques needed to produce beautiful flowers, top-quality herbs, and appetizing, wholesome fruits and vegetables. Explore the latest methods for cultivation without chemicals, discover the benefits of composting, and learn how to maintain an organic garden year-round.
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Posted on 05 August 2010. Tags: backyard-habitats, changing-climate, edible-landscaping, fertilizer-products, gardening-techniques, horticultural-therapy, indispensable-work, invasive-plants, organic-methods, organic-pest, organic-soil, reducing-energy, understanding-biotechnology, vegetable-crops, wise-water
Price: $10.00
Rodale’s Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening has been the go-to resource for gardeners for more than 50 years—and the best tool novices can buy to start applying organic methods to their fruit and vegetable crops, herbs, trees and shrubs, perennials, annuals, and lawns. This thoroughly revised and updated version highlights new organic pest controls, new fertilizer products, improved gardening techniques, the latest organic soil practices, and new trends in garden design.
In this indispensable work readers will find:
- comprehensive coverage for the entire garden and landscape along with related entries such as Community Gardening, Edible Landscaping, Horticultural Therapy, Stonescaping, and more
- the most in-depth information from the trusted Rodale Organic Gardening brand
- a completely new section on earth-friendly techniques for gardening in a changing climate, covering wise water management, creating backyard habitats, managing invasive plants and insects, reducing energy use and recycling, and understanding biotechnology
- entries all written by American gardeners for American gardeners, with answers for all the challenges presented by various conditions, from the humid Deep South and the mild maritime coasts to the cold far North and the dry Southwest
Rodale’s Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening has everything anyone needs to create gorgeous, non-toxic gardens in any part of the country.
Rodale’s Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening: The Indispensable Green Resource for Every Gardener
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Posted on 31 July 2010. Tags: chemicals, fruit-and-vegetables, Organic Gardening, pets, weed-control
Whether you want to grow better-tasting fruit and vegetables untainted by chemicals, find natural methods of pest and weed control, or create a garden that is safer for your children, pets and wildlife, Organic Gardening is your practical, easy-to-follow guide to gardening with, rather than against, nature.
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Posted on 30 July 2010. Tags: africa-australia, cooking-class, culinary-travel, europe-asia, foodie, greek-islands, new-york-times, pal-version
Price: $24.95
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES About.com Culinary-Travel DVD
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“My #1 choice for a fabulous gift is “A Greek Islands Destination Cooking Class” (DVD). It is one of the most beautiful (and educational) productions I’ve seen. Cynthia Daddona hosts this cooking-lesson-tour-romantic-interlude from the Greek island of Santorini. This 71-minute DVD is as much a travelogue as it is a cooking video. The videography is beautiful, Cynthia is an engaging host, and the recipes are oh-so tempting. A section of the production is devoted to exploring ingredients, and it’s fascinating! If you can’t take a trip to the Greek islands this year, this is the next best thing!”
—Nancy Gaifyllia, New York Times’ about.com:greek food
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Travel to Greece and experience a wonderful Greek Islands Gourmet Cooking Class in the village of Thera on the island of Santorini. Follow our award-winning host and author, CYNTHIA DADDONA as she and the professionals at our featured gourmet restaurant prepare a special multi-course gourmet dinner.
Enjoy your Destination Cooking Class which includes everything from harvesting the herbs, learning the history of the foods and wines, preparing the courses and, finally, dining while enjoying the spectacular island views from the restaurant’s outdoor terrace.
Also, enjoy visiting this beautiful Greek Island’s archaeological sites-to-see, the things-to-do, the culture and the warm people of the Mediterranean.
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“What a little treasure this DVD is! I was looking forward to viewing this DVD, as I am of Greek descent and have visited the beautiful island of Santorini many times. I also enjoy regional Greek Cuisine and found the
recipes and techniques in this DVD very intriguing and I think easily adaptable for the home chef. The bonus section at the end showcases various cheeses and herbs of Santorini, and is definitely a visual treat for the most die-hard foodie!
Interspersed among the cookery class and food tips are scenes of the natural beauty of the island, and glimpses of a tradional Greek Island wedding. I really liked the personal story and felt like I was experiencing the culture of Santorini. Additionally, the scenery is so gorgeous!!!”
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A Greek Island Destination Cooking class documentary is a gift to anyone. Watching it you are captured immediately and swept up into the color, beauty and richness of Greek life, culture, food, and love. The host
Cynthia Daddona delightfully presents a clear, informative, inspiring experience which gets to the heart of the matter – how to fully enjoy and celebrate life! After viewing this delicious documentary I felt like I had traveled to Greece!
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Posted on 28 July 2010. Tags: farming-association, forward-farming, intimate-portrait, martin-lang, recordable-media, sustainable-farming
Price: $11.00
Farming Forward is a positive and inspiring look at sustainable farming in Minnesota. Directed by Martin Lang and Ethan Marxhausen in collaboration with the Sustainable Farming Association of MN, this new documentary paints an intimate portrait of the state’s burgeoning diversity of small family farms, from the rural to the urban, from multi-generational farms to new immigrant operations, from organic to local (or both!) and every point in between. Meet the people, young and old, from interns to elders, who grow your food and are passionate about reestablishing the links between people, the land and their food.
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Posted on 23 July 2010. Tags: dietary-changes, dr-gary, gary-null, immune-conditions, immune-systems, lifestyle-changes, preventive-measures, therapeutic-protocols
Price: $49.98
At a time when major devastating immune conditions such as AIDS, chronic fatigue syndrome and arthritis are crippling millions of Americans, its essential to know how to protect yourself through decisive preventive measures including therapeutic protocols by leading preventive practitioners in the restoration of immune systems. This video demonstrates that these diseases need not destroy your quality of life.
Youll learn about natural methods of building your immune system: lifestyle changes, dietary changes, herbs that strengthen the immune system, and the positive effects of vitamin C.
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Posted on 21 July 2010. Tags: bee-colonies, big-trouble, catastrophic-collapse, food-supply, honey-bees, news-reports, slow-decline, truth-about
Price: $14.99
Nicotine Bees, the movie, gets to the truth about why the honey bees of the world are in big trouble, and why our food supply is in trouble with them.
We think the answers are clear – and have been for several years. We filmed on 3 continents to find out the real reasons why bees are in catastrophic decline – and why many people don’t want the real story to be told.
Although the bees have been in a slow decline for years, something else happened between 2005 and 2006 that changed everything: a sharp and catastrophic collapse of bee colonies in dozens of countries simultaneously. This was unlike anything seen before, even by the oldest beekeepers in the U.S., Canada and Europe.
The answers have been right in front of us: the worldwide, simultaneous die-offs of honeybees – with a strange set of behaviors seen everywhere.
With the continuing bee collapse, one third of our food supply is at risk – yet despite the clear-cut scientific data, especially from Europe, in news reports this is issue is still called “mysterious.”
We think this crisis is not mysterious.
The answers are clear cut from evidence from Europe and the US, from observations of similar effects from Europe to Canada to India, and in dozens of states across the US.
We systematically ruled-out the other possible causes of this massive die-off to find the one underlying explanation that really works: all over the world, at the same time, with the same bizarre behaviors: bees simply leave their precious honey and young bees behind.
They don’t come home.
We think we know why, and Nicotine Bees is ready to show what has happened.
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Posted on 17 July 2010. Tags: california-right, chemical-farming, commercial-agriculture, conventional-chemical, dramatic-story, educational-tours, fairview-gardens, future-generations, goleta-california, good-earth, labor-practices, organic-farm, organic-farmers, outspoken-critic, professional-photographer, suburban-development, traditional-agriculture, urban-farm
Fairview Gardens is an urban farm located in Goleta, California, right in the middle of some of the most expensive real estate in the U.S. Managed for the past two decades by visionary farmer/photographer/author, Michael Ableman, this 12-acre organic farm has become a model of sustainable food production and community involvement, as well as an inspiration for thousands of people all over the world.
While managing the farm, Ableman traveled around the world learning from the best examples of traditional agriculture. A talented professional photographer, his slides and observations — carefully captured in BEYOND ORGANIC — became the basis for two of his popular books From The Good Earth and On Good Land. At the same time he became an outspoken critic of large-scale commercial agriculture, with its reliance on vast inputs of fossil fuels, water, pesticides and other chemicals.
BEYOND ORGANIC tells the story of this amazing farm and its long battle to survive in the face of rapid suburban development. It explores the efforts of Ableman and his staff to diversify the farm, open it to educational tours for thousands of people — especially schoolchildren — and defend it against angry neighbors, hostile public officials and developers eager to re-zone the land for condominiums. It draws a sharp contrast between community supported agriculture and conventional chemical farming, and it calls on organic farmers to remember basic principles, including fair labor practices, as their farms grow in size and power.
BEYOND ORGANIC is a dramatic story with a happy ending. Other neighbors — and eventually the entire Santa Barbara community — rallied around Fairview Gardens and raised $800,000 to preserve it as a land trust, and as a source of inspiration, for future generations.
Posted in Organic Gardening
Posted on 15 July 2010. Tags: containers, fruit-vegetables, herbs, organic-fruit, organic-methods, pots
Price: $13.57
Shows you how to grow vegetables and fruit, using organic methods, even if you don’t have a garden; all that is necessary is a couple of pots or a window box.
Kitchen Harvest: Growing Organic Fruit, Vegetables & Herbs in Containers
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Posted on 14 July 2010. Tags: new-edition, organic-vegetable, vegetables
Price: $11.25
Revised and updated, a new edition of the classic illustrated gardening book, written by the original author’s grandson, demonstrates how to grow vegetables organically. $25,000 ad/promo.
Step by Step Organic Vegetable Gardening: The Gardening Classic Revised and Updated
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Posted on 13 July 2010. Tags: 21st-century, comprehensive-guide, groundbreaking-book, growing-vegetables, Organic Gardening, scientific-knowledge, synthetic-chemicals
Price: $22.80
The comprehensive guide to do-it-yourself organic gardening, starting from the basics. This groundbreaking book explains the latest scientific knowledge on how to find, choose and grow the best plants without any synthetic chemicals.
Organic Gardening for the 21st Century: A Complete Guide to Growing Vegetables, Fruits, Herbs and Flowers
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Posted on 06 July 2010. Tags: annie-spiegelman, compost-pile, earth-guide, edible-landscaping, expert-annie, garden-expert, garden-practices, landscape-designs, level-location, Organic Gardening, practical-guide, renowned-garden, skill-level, talking-dirt
Price: $10.20
A lively and practical guide to organic gardening from a renowned garden expert.
Annie Spiegelman’s down-to-earth wit and wisdom create the perfect primer for anyone with a passion for home-grown veggies or fresh-cut flowers, no matter what their skill level, location, or resources. Includes advice on:
•Learning to worship the worm and build a compost pile
•Landscape designs-start small in order to create a basic plan for a plot
•The secret to healthy soil (the only way to have a healthy garden)
•Irrigation systems and strategies to conserve water
•Proper pruning-from roses to trees
•How to combine vegetables to make them thrive
•How to let your garden go native and become drought tolerant
•Edible landscaping and gardening in small spaces
Talking Dirt is a one-stop handbook that features resources for shopping, learning, and promoting environmentally sound garden practices within local communities.
Talking Dirt: The Dirt Diva’s Down-to-Earth Guide to Organic Gardening
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Posted on 05 July 2010. Tags: advisory-board, agricultural-system, book-details, daily-kos, destructive-practices, food-choices, food-crisis, food-issues, food-movement, jill-richardson, marion-nestle, necessary-book, new-plateau, sustainable-agriculture, unhealthy-food
Price: $10.85
“Jill Richardson is a fresh voice in the movement to create a healthier and sustainable food system. This book will be part of the burgeoning food social movement, as it provides a guide to the most important issues and how to work on them.”—Marion Nestle
“Jill’s work at Daily Kos represents the best of the people-powered movement. It’s a pleasure to see her work reach a new plateau and come to the attention of a wider audience.”—Markos Moulitsas
America’s food system is dominated by agribusiness and corporate farms, whose destructive practices pollute the environment, are cruel to animals, and offer us unhealthy food choices. Despite this dire situation, most people have little idea how to eat differently, or healthier.
In Recipe for America, food activist Jill Richardson shows how sustainable agriculture—where local farms raise food that is healthy for consumers and animals and does not damage the environment—offers the only solution to America’s food crisis. In addition to highlighting the harmful conditions at factory farms, this timely and necessary book details the rising grassroots food movement, which is creating an agricultural system that allows people to eat sustainably, locally, and seasonally.
A call to action for those who are concerned about what they eat and the health of the planet, Recipe for America shows how sustainable eating nourishes our bodies, our economy, and our environment, and how it is the best hope for the future of food in America.
Jill Richardson blogs about food issues at Daily Kos and at her own blog, La Vida Locavore (http://www.lavidalocavore.org). She is also a member of the advisory board of the Organic Consumers Association.
Recipe for America: Why Our Food System is Broken and What We Can Do to Fix It
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Posted on 03 July 2010. Tags: back-yard, color-encyclopedia, color-photographs, encyclopedia-section, home-remedies
Price: $4.50
Gardeners everywhere love herbs for the wonderful flavors they add to food, the beauty they lend to the garden, and for their many uses in crafts and as home remedies. This hands-on guide shows how anyone can successfully grow a wide range of more than 90 herbs in the back yard. Features a full-color encyclopedia section. 300 color photographs; 50 illustrations.
Rodale’s Successful Organic Gardening: Herbs (Rodale’s Successful Organic Gardening)
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Posted on 30 June 2010. Tags: agriculture-operations, arizona-landscape, cliff-dwelling, coal-mining, del-bac, desert-mission, dragoon-mountains, informative-films, lava-beds, monument-oregon, natural-farming, navajo-tribe, pipe-cactus, silver-mica, st-xavier, sugar-beets
Price: $12.99
Gain a first-hand glimpse into the history of the great state of Arizona with this vintage DVD featuring two informative films on Arizona resources and culture. This DVD features footage of the beautiful Arizona natural landscape as well as history on Arizona mining, and the Navajo Native American tribe that settled on the Colorado River
Reservation. This DVD is a great history lesson on one of America’s most beautiful states! Table of Contents: (1) Arizona Its Mineral Resources and Scenic Wonders (1930’s) – Fast paced and packed with information, this film explores the bountiful and beautiful natural resources of Arizona. The first half of the film focuses on Arizona’s booming mine operations of the early 1900’s, with a great lesson on the early history of gold and silver mining in Arizona. Copper, gold, silver, mica, gypsum, silica, feldspar, clay, manganese, mercury, and coal mining operations in Tombstone, Ajo, Miami, Ray, Jerome, Magma, Duncan, Yuca and The San Francisco region are featured. The second half of the film focuses on natural farming and the beauty of the Arizona landscape. Arizona’s vast farming and agriculture operations are discussed, which include carrots, sugar beets, asparagus, cotton, dates, oranges, grapefruits and cattle. Visits are taken to Montezuma Castle National Monument, Oregon Pipe Cactus National Monument, the Petrified Forest, the Painted Desert, Mission of St. Xavier Del Bac, Hope Creek Canyon, the Dragoon Mountains, the lava beds of Sunset Crater and a various Native American ruin sites, including cliff dwelling ruins. The film ends with a brief discussion about the tourism industry in Arizona – 39 minutes. (2) A New Frontier (1948) – According to this film produced by the U.S. Indian Service, the Navajo tribe and other Native Americans of the Southwest United States should seek the Colorado River Reservation as a “new frontier” because of the overpopulation of the Navajo reservation in Arizona – 17 Minutes
Classic Arizona Films DVD: 1930s – 1940s State of Arizona Natural Resources & Parks History Films
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Posted on 29 June 2010. Tags: growing-flowers, lawns
Price: $12.89
Grow Organic: Over 250 Tips and Ideas for Growing Flowers, Veggies, Lawns and More
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Posted on 27 June 2010. Tags: category-leader, comprehensive-guide, consumer-awareness, detailed-descriptions, garden-chemicals, garden-friend, guide-features, intensive-intervention, latest-science, natural-pest, new-photos, organic-control, organic-garden, organic-gardener, organic-methods, photo-identification, plant-diseases
Price: $16.49
With growing consumer awareness about the dangers of garden chemicals, turn to The Organic Gardener’s Handbook of Natural Pest and Disease Control as the most reliable and comprehensive guide on the garden shelf. Rodale has been the category leader in organic methods for decades, and this thoroughly updated edition features the latest science-based recommendations for battling garden problems. With all-new photos of common and recently introduced pests and plant diseases, you can quickly identify whether you’ve discovered garden friend or foe and what action, if any, you should take.
No other reference includes a wider range of methods for growing and maintaining an organic garden. The plant-by-plant guide features symptoms and solutions for 200 popular plants, including flowers, vegetables, trees, shrubs, and fruits. The insect-and-disease encyclopedia includes a photo identification guide and detailed descriptions of damage readers may see. The extensive coverage of the most up-to-date organic control techniques and products, presented in order of lowest impact to most intensive intervention, makes it easy to choose the best control.
The Organic Gardener’s Handbook of Natural Pest and Disease Control: A Complete Guide to Maintaining a Healthy Garden and Yard the Earth-Friendly Way (Rodale Organic Gardening Books)
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Posted on 25 June 2010. Tags: artificial-substances, chemical-fertilizers, food-web, gardening-techniques, inert-substance, microbial-life, Organic Gardening, organic-gardener, soil-dwelling, technical-language, vicious-circle, vigorous-plants, weekend-gardeners
Price: $16.47
Smart gardeners know that soil is anything but an inert substance. Healthy soil is teeming with life — not just earthworms and insects, but a staggering multitude of bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms. When we use chemical fertilizers, we injure the microbial life that sustains healthy plants, and thus become increasingly dependent on an arsenal of artificial substances, many of them toxic to humans as well as other forms of life. But there is an alternative to this vicious circle: to garden in a way that strengthens, rather than destroys, the soil food web — the complex world of soil-dwelling organisms whose interactions create a nurturing environment for plants. By eschewing jargon and overly technical language, the authors make the benefits of cultivating the soil food web available to a wide audience, from devotees of organic gardening techniques to weekend gardeners who simply want to grow healthy, vigorous plants without resorting to chemicals.
Teaming with Microbes: The Organic Gardener’s Guide to the Soil Food Web, Revised Edition
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Posted on 16 June 2010. Tags: encyclopedia-of-organic-gardening
Price: $25.50
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Posted on 14 June 2010. Tags: bypass-surgery, fast-food, food-expert, food-lifestyle, grand-opening, health-energy, morbid-obesity, morbidly-obese, oklahoma-city, raw-food, raw-spirit, recordable-media, spirit-festival, vibrant-health
Price: $19.97
Learn How to Incorporate Raw Food and Living Cuisine to Aid you in Permanent Weight Loss!
Thousands have been inspired by Philip to improve their lives already, now this information is available to you on DVD to a packed house. Philip McCluskey discovered and now shares the secret to overcoming obesity through vibrant eating and living cuisine! This event was filmed live at the 105degrees Raw Food Academy in Oklahoma City. Philip shares his motivating story at their grand opening event.
Through his entire life Philip had tried everything to reverse his morbid obesity, unsuccessfully attempting over 30 diets, and ALMOST going through with gastric bypass surgery. That was until he found the SECRET.
Find out how Philip became half the size he used to be (and twice the man!), dropping over 215lbs, and KEEPING it off. If you are ready to become the happy, overjoyed and glowing person that’s waiting inside, you need to watch this! You’re WORTH IT.
(This event was filmed live at 105degrees Academy)
Philip McCluskey is a raw food expert who motivates hundreds of thousands of people worldwide to become healthier, happier, and fitter by trading in their standard diet for a raw food lifestyle. Philip’s journey began in 2006, when, at a morbidly obese 400 pounds, he discovered raw food and shed 215 pounds, gaining vibrant health, energy, and a renewed passion for living.
His story has inspired countless others who have seen him on CBS’s The Doctors, have heard him speak at events like the Raw Spirit Festival, or have followed his journey on YouTube and on his website. He is also the author of two published books, including Raw Food, Fast Food.
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Posted on 10 June 2010. Tags: academic-institution, curricular-resource, faculty-students, genetic-engineering, independent-filmmakers, inexpensive-food, institutional-price, large-scale, provocative-commentary, scale-agriculture, technology-promise, thorny-questions, trade-offs
Price: $24.95
This fascinating documentary explores the intersection of food and politics in California over the last 30 years. It illuminates the complex forces struggling for control of the future of California’s agriculture, and provides provocative commentary by a wide array of eloquent farmers, prominent chefs, and noted authors and scientists. The film examines a host of thorny questions: What are the trade-offs between the ability to produce large quantities of food versus the health of workers, consumers, and the planet? What are the hidden costs of “inexpensive” food? How do we create sustainable agricultural practices?
Through the “window” of food and agriculture, Ripe for Change reveals two parallel yet contrasting views of our world. One holds that large-scale agriculture, genetic engineering, and technology promise a hunger-less future. The other calls for a more organic, sustainable, and locally focused style of farming that reclaims the aesthetic and nurturing qualities of food and considers the impact of agriculture on the environment, on communities, and on workers. Ripe for Change was directed by award-winning filmmaker Emiko Omori.
Important note about pricing:
If you are a professor or student planning on using the video in a classroom setting please have your academic institution or union purchase the video at the institutional price. Simply contact the seller for that information.
This will insure that:
1) The institution has legally acquired the public performance rights to use the video as a curricular resource;
2) All faculty/students/members have access to the video and;
3) Independent filmmakers who produce videos such as Ripe for Change, and who depend on DVD sales to cover production costs, can continue to carry out their work.
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