Green Careers: Sustainable Agriculture (clip)

Sustainable agriculture strives to produce food in a way that maintains the health of the land, protects the people who work it, and benefits those who enjoy its abundance.This program provides an inside look at an organic farm and an organic retail store and discusses the day-to-day challenges and rewards of working in this field. Organic farming includes a wide range of jobs in production, marketing and distribution.Organic farming is a very competitive business, but for people with an interest in growing food, plus muscle power and brains, it can be a rewarding career. Many people in this industry grew up on farms, but there are also opportunities to start at an entry level and learn the business. It is by definition local, so there are opportunities anywhere, in both rural and urban settings. 22 minutes, color.Jobs profiled in this program include:Farm Manager, Retail Sales Manager, Organic Produce Buyer. Grade Levels: 7 to Adultdirect link to purchase the DVD: http://www.phoenixlearninggrou...

 

Channel: Film & Animation
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: phoenixfilmandvideo

Length: 02:42
Rating: 4.783784
Views: 45996


Tags: Green  Careers  Sustainable  Agriculture  organic  farming  farm  manager  retail  sales  produce  buyer  environment  Phoenix  

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MaggiesOrganics (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am) Very cool video! Makes me want to take up farming for myself PDXMILO (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am) @blessedRthemeek This post makes no sense. Really contradictory. By the way most producers grow monocultures and don't tell us anything. It would be refreshing if every producer took the time to tell us the story of the food they grow. PDXMILO (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am) @sjwyuma Yeah a dog walking though a crop is sooo much more unhealthy than a field sprayed with poison and fertilizers made from petroleum! PDXMILO (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am) @sidneyx2 You are so off base. Farmers are poor and selling off land BECAUSE they have bought into the synthetic fertilizers and chemicals model of farming. Direct marketing and diversified crops are making farming more profitable and decent food more readily available. stubbornVN (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am) Would sustainable agriculture policy raise the idea that a crop requiring gm modification shouldn't be a crop choice for that area, and should be destroyed to ensure the worlds viable crops? UK potato blight should have it on a worldwide destruction list but instead farmers try to work around it. RunescapePins (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am) cool vid imejoehiyalol (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am) Holy potato batman he said bayzil. crystalfengqian (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am) thanks a lot for your information.I am in montreal and I will learn agriculture and environment.Your information let me know my future direction. govindas999 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am) Mr Subhash Palekar in India is saving the lives of planters with his zero budget farming!!!!He wrote 3 books from the Vedas about agriculture and now there's no need for fertilisers/dangerous pesticides or tractors....search for it sickoicko12 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am) @cpsretartedmuch.....if it weren't for white people, the entire world would probably be a shit hole right about now.