Season 1
57 (The Average Age of the American Farmer)
57 is the average age of US farmers. See what’s next in education and green collar jobs.
57 (The Average Age of the American Farmer)
Food: deserts, security, sovereignty — terms, culture and politics for feeding the world.
Food Security
Farming on rooftops and in vacant lots connects urbanites to where their food comes from.
Urban Farming
When you buy food, you’re buying values, values of those who grow, transport and sell it.
Fair Trade vs. Direct Trade
Learn how and why nearly 80% of antibiotics in the U.S. are used on healthy animals.
Antibiotic-Free
Sustainability is an ideal rooted in the choices we make as consumers and producers.
What is Sustainability?
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
What if you could buy fresh fruit and vegetables each week, grown by a local farmer?
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
Economies of community help people connect, build and rebuild local food systems.
Economies of Community
Learn the difference between whole wheat and white and meet the people preserving grains.
Wheat or White?
Learn how people are rescuing "ugly" food by composting, redistributing and eating wisely.
Food Waste
What’s more important, that your food is organic or you know who and where it comes from?
Local vs. Organic
True Cost Accounting: The Real Cost of Cheap Food
True cost accounting helps consumers understand the real cost of the food they buy.
True Cost Accounting: The Real Cost of Cheap Food
Learn the real story behind such terms as cage free, free range, and pasture raised.
The Story of an Egg
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