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The only general book on organic farming- for beginners or transitioning farmers, growing crops or raising animals- information on everything from getting started to marketing strategies.

In this film, watch as researchers investigate the deceptive underside of eco-agriculture and organic food production. Though organic products are largely considered the way of the future, sly measures are taken to promote products that are not actually organic while workers are exploited in poor conditions to produce the amount of organic goods desired by discount markets. From a turkey-fattening farm in Germany to a chicken farm in China to prawn...

Discusses alternative crops, tillage styles and systems, pest management and soil fertility in terms of improving farms while preserving the environment. Visits several farms managed as sustainable operations.

"A memoir of making these essential relationships work in the face of challenges as natural as weather and as unnatural as corporate politics, her book is a firsthand history of getting in at the "ground level" of organic farming. One of the first certified organic produce farms in the Midwest, the Diffleys' Gardens of Eagan helped to usher in a new kind of green revolution in the heart of America's farmland, supplying their roadside stand and a growing...

In American Organic we see how organic growing and consumption has been everything from a practical decision, lifestyle choice, and status marker to a political deed, subversive effort, and social philosophy - and how organic production and consumption are entrenched in the lives of all Americans, whether they eat organic food or not.

A focused exposure of India's agricultural plight and the answers provided by biodynamic farming.

Chronicles the life of the one-hundred-year-old Fairview Gardens, a thriving farm in the heart of suburban Santa Barbara.

In recent years, the popularity of organically grown produce has exploded. In 2014, organic fruits and vegetables accounted for 12% of all produce sales in the United States, with $39 billion in consumer sales reported for 2015. As a federally recognized niche market within the agricultural mainstream, organic farming is increasingly on display in American grocery stores. Yet the organic food most Americans consume today is produced by an industrial...

Peter Proctor is New Zealand's father of biodynamic agriculture. Compost is the fundamental element in all gardening and farming. This master class takes you through the compost making process from gathering and assembling your materials to creating the perfect compost heap.

Documents the trend of unlabeled genetically-modified foods which have become increasingly prevalent in grocery stores. Unravels the complex web of market and political forces that are changing the nature of what we eat. Explores organic and sustainable agriculture as alternatives to large-scale industrial agriculture.