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Public Grocery Stores Don't Lead to Monopolies — They’re a New Choice in a Rigged Market

Critics say a public grocery program would limit consumer freedom, but unlike corporate monopolies, it expands it by adding competition, giving shoppers another choice and pushing private retailers to keep prices in check.

Tim Hjersted

How Public Groceries Can Make Food Affordable Again

Errol Schweizer, a former national vice president of grocery at Whole Foods, argues in Jacobin that the private sector is responsible for ever-rising grocery prices and cant be relied on to fix the problem. Our food system needs a public option.

Errol Schweizer

This Thanksgiving, Let’s Feed Families, Not Factory Farms

Nearly 70% of the grain grown in this countrycorn, soy, wheat, and barleynever feeds a single human being. Instead, its fed to pigs, chickens, and cows packed into industrial animal factories.

Matthew Dominguez

Radical Neighbouring | Adam Wilson

What do humans who aren't consumers look like? What happens when we find ways of feeding ourselves and each other without buying or selling food?

19 min

I Turned My Front Yard Into a FOOD FOREST in 1 Year

I decided to experiment planting a food forest in my front yard in my first years in this garden. Discover what happened

20 min

Tiny Space, Big Harvest – How to Grow Food in a Small Garden

Growing food in a small garden can produce a surprisingly big harvest, whether its on an urban balcony, in a tiny yard, or even on a countertop or windowsill. It feels pretty special to learn and practice the timeless skill of growing your own food and to be able to eat fresh...

15 min

How Supermarkets Rewired the Planet

The supermarket is one of the strangest and most powerful inventions in human history. Grocery shopping is often perceived as a simple, mundane activity. And for many, access to food has never been more effortless. But supermarkets hold far more power than we realize.

29 min

The TRUTH About Zohran’s Supermarkets

In this video, Spencer Snyder discusses the forgotten history of public markets, the role of the Robinson-Patman Act in keeping chains in check, and how deregulation in the 1980s fueled todays food deserts.

22 min

The Most Corrupt Corporation In the World Is Taking Over Our Food Supply

JBS, the Brazilian meat-packing giant known for bribery and corruption scandals, just went public. The company was previously denied access to U.S. markets until they donated millions to Trumps inaugural fund. Now, small farms across the country are sounding the alarms.

13 min

Common Ground (trailer)

Sobering yet hopeful, Common Ground exposes the toxic interconnections of American farming policy, politics, and health, by sharing stories of destruction and healing across the United States and beyond, and how regenerative agriculture and soil health plays a vitally...

3 min

After Winter, Spring (2015) ($4)

Six years in the making, award-winning film AFTER WINTER, SPRING is an intimate portrait of a rural community in southwest France as it grapples with a profound question: will it be the last generation of family farmers in a region continuously cultivated for over five...

74 min

The Man Who Feeds Gaza's Children

Before the war, Hamada Shaqoura was a food blogger. Now, he spends his days cooking to feed children and displaced people in Gaza. And he figured out a way to reach millions on social media without saying a word. His intense stare at the camera as he cooks various dishes has...

19 min

Tea Creek (trailer)

Against the backdrop of colonization and the climate crisis, Jacob Beaton, a passionate Indigenous entrepreneur, has embarked on a remarkable journey. His vision is to transform his family farm into a beacon of hope for Indigenous Food Sovereignty. In a world where the...

2 min

This Detroit Agrihood is Transforming its Community - Michigan Urban Farming Initiative Tour

A tour of MIUFI (Michigian Urban Farming Initiative) and interview with its manager - Quan Blunt.

13 min

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Corn

John Oliver discusses the financial and environmental impact of corn in the US.

25 min

The Outdoor Classroom: How to Bring a Permaculture Garden to Your School (2013)

This Afristar (www.afristarfoundation.org) produced educational documentary offers step-by-step instructions on how to establish a permaculture garden at a school.

28 min

The Lie That Made Food Conglomerates Rich...And Is Slowly Poisoning Us

Nestle, Kelloggs, and other big food conglomerates have been funding a massive misinformation campaign to make you think their foods are healthy. Their goal is to get you addicted, and make billions in profits. Its straight from Big Tobacco's playbook literally.

14 min

Food, Inc. 2 (2024) ($7)

In Food, Inc. 2, the sequel to the 2008 Oscar-nominated and Emmy-award winning documentary, Food, Inc., filmmakers Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo reunite with investigative authors Michael Pollan (The Omnivores Dilemma) and Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) to take a fresh...

94 min

Urban Food Forest in a Public Park! – The City Food Commons

The City Food Commons shares the story of Roimata Food Commons, an urban food forest initiative driven by tautahi Christchurch local Michael Reynolds. The aim of the project is to empower the community to co-create space in a public park, reviving the notion of the Commons...

13 min

Imprint (2023)

What can one person do? What can a group of people do? What do we want to leave behind? In the film "Imprint" we visit 13 projects in 13 different places where committed groups work for a vibrant future. A personal and poetic depiction of what it means to be fully human in...

75 min

Our Food is Killing Us

In thisvideo essay, I examine the causes and destruction of our current industrialized food system. Specifically, I dive into the capitalist commodification of food, and how most of the industrialized farming that takes place in the imperial core doesn't produce crops for our...

25 min

The New Sustainable Fishing Model That Could Disrupt the Global Seafood Industry

Documentaries like Netflix's Seaspiracy highlight many of the destructive practices of the global fishing industry, but are there sustainable alternatives to the industrial model? In this film, Fishing for the Future, we explore an inspiring new model created by Gravity...

17 min

Growing Solutions: Soil, Water, Farmers, Seeds, Roots (2020)

In the face of threats to our farming future such as climate change, people are innovating to protect and regenerate our most vital resources soil, water, seeds, and our farmer workforce. Growing Solutions features a centuries-old water conservation method, a farmer whos...

42 min

A Quiet Revolution: Seed Sovereignty in the City

Londoners are rising to the challenges of climate change, food poverty, entrenched inequality and our nations mental and physical health crises by reviving one of the oldest human activities of all- sowing, saving and sharing seeds.

9 min

Beautiful No Dig Permaculture Kitchen Garden

This video is of Tim and Maddy Harland's beautiful no-dig permaculture kitchen garden in Hapmshire UK. Tim and Maddy are the founders of the fantastic @PermacultureMagazine and have a tranquil vegetable garden, meadow and food forest at their home that has been maturing for...

11 min

Eating Our Way to Extinction (2021)

Narrated by Kate Winslet, Eating Our Way to Extinction is a cinematic feature documentary, taking audiences on a journey around the world and addressing the elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about. This powerful documentary sends a simple but impactful message by...

82 min

Bring a Farm Back to Life

Help us to get our sixth site Maesgwyn Isaf - up and running. With your support we can make this farm ready to welcome new entrant farmers to work this land in an agroecological way, building on the legacy of Jenn and Stuart Carter who gifted this farm to us. Maesgwyn Isaf...

2 min

Into the Soil | Regenerative Farming & Food Fermentation (2022)

A refreshing perspective on what it means to be wealthy Don Smith, Kiss the Ground

32 min

MILKED: White Lies In Dairy Land (2022) ($3)

MILKEDfollows a young activist who goes deep into dairy land where he takes on the giants of New Zealands most powerful industry, and reveals how the sacred cash-cow industry has been milked dry. His journey exposes not only the sustainability crisis and the dangerous denial...

90 min

How to Optimize Your Gut and Brain Bacteria | Dave Asprey

The importance of the microbiome has really come to the fore in the last five years. Viome, a company that analyzed the feces of 100,000 people, has discovered 10,000 new types of gut bacteria. Additionally, improved imaging technology led scientists to discover you don't...

7 min

First We Eat (trailer)

What happens when an ordinary family, living just south of the Arctic Circle, bans all grocery store food from their house for one year? Add three skeptical teenagers, one reluctant husband, no salt, no caffeine, no sugar and -40 temperatures.

2 min

How to Start a Regenerative Farm from Scratch

Have you ever wanted to start a regenerative farm from scratch?In this video, the Heifer USA team traveled to North Carolina to visit Grass Grazed Farm, a regenerative farm where founders Derrick and Paige Jackson have established and grown a successful business in just two...

21 min

Rundown Apartments Reborn as Food-Forest Coliving Agritopia (2021)

In 2007, Ole and Maitri Ersson bought the rundown Cabana apartment complex in the city and immediately began to de-pave parking spaces to make space for what today is a huge permaculture coliving space and urban food forest. Today, the Kailash Ecovillage has 55 residents who...

55 min

The $100 Billion Dollar Ingredient Making Your Food Toxic

Industrial seed oils are in almost all processed foods.

29 min

Small Scale Agroecological Approaches for the COVID 19 Response and Beyond

From the closure of markets to the interruption of agricultural supply chains, the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to disrupt food systems around the world. Many families, especially those in already fragile contexts, may soon struggle to access healthy, nutritious diets. Meeting...

67 min

Sustenance (2020) ($5)

A challenge instigated by a group of friends with different diets and eating habits takes the viewers of Sustenance on a global journey in search of the dimensions of sustainability. Sustenance is a feature-length documentary about food's journey around the world and its...

88 min

The Market Gardener's Toolkit (2018) ($5)

An educational film in which small-scale organic farmer, educator and author Jean-Martin Fortier shares the tools and techniques used on his highly productive 1.5-acre farm. From soil preparation to strategies on dealing with insect pests, discover how this micro-farm manages...

79 min

The Permaculture Orchard: Beyond Organic (2018) ($5)

The Permaculture Orchard : Beyond Organic is a feature-length educational film that will teach you how to set up your own permaculture orchard at any scale. Recognizing the limitations of the organic model as a substitute to conventional fruit growing, this film proposes a...

115 min

Food Savers (trailer)

This follow-up to Valentin Thurns documentary, Taste the Waste, spotlights the people and companies throughout Europe who are working to salvage usable food. It is estimated that European households throw away 100 billion Euros worth of food each year. Thurn asks why is it so...

4 min

Seaspiracy (trailer)

Seaspiracy examines the global fishing industry, challenging notions of sustainable fishing and showing how human actions cause widespread environmental destruction.

3 min

The Truth About Food Insecurity

We live in a world with a rapidly growing population. Some people would have you believe that food insecurity is caused by overpopulation, or that we've reached the earth's carrying capacity. Is that really the case? In this episode, Second Thought takesa brief look at the...

13 min

One Hundred Thousand Beating Hearts: An Evolution From Industrial To Regenerative Farming

Fourth generation cattleman Will Harris shares his evolutionfrom industrial to regenerative farmer.

15 min

Artifishal: The Fight to Save Wild Salmon (2019)

Artifishal is a film about people, rivers, and the fight for the future of wild fish and the environment that supports them. It explores wild salmons slide toward extinction, threats posed by fish hatcheries and fish farms, and our continued loss of faith in nature. Thanks...

80 min

They Call Us Criminals (trailer)

This upcoming documentary aims to expose the reality of the animals suffering within industries that exploit them, as well as showcase the work of Animal Rights activists in Canada. All while debunking the idea that activists are extremists, criminals and terrorists. The...

2 min

Living Soil (2018)

Our soils support 95 percent of all food production, and by 2060, our soils will be asked to give us as much food as we have consumed in the last 500 years. They filter our water. They are one of our most cost-effective reservoirs for sequestering carbon. They are our...

61 min

Kiss the Ground (trailer)

Kiss the Ground reveals that, by regenerating the worlds soils, we can completely and rapidly stabilize Earths climate, restore lost ecosystems and create abundant food supplies. Using compelling graphics and visuals, along with striking NASA and NOAA footage, the film...

3 min

Early Morning Permaculture Tour of Zaytuna Farm

After a struggle to get back home to Australia and two weeks in quarantine before reaching Zaytuna, Geoff enjoys an early morning, and he takes us on a walk to some special spots around the property. Possum (the dog) waits on the speed bump that sends water to Paradise Dam...

17 min

Scaling up Permaculture in the City | Andrew Faust

Learn how to become more regionally resilient withbioregional economics and ecological city design.

35 min

How Permaculture Can Build Resilience and Meet Basic Needs During a Pandemic

As COVID-19 spreads, people are showing a growing interest in permaculture principles and techniques to heal their lives, communities and the planet.

Marina Martinez

Feeding Ourselves (2017)

Feeding Ourselves weaves intimate stories from the hopes and convictions of rural BC farmers and producers as they navigate undercurrents of uncertainty with our food system. Their commitment to local food culture inspires us to appreciate the significance and potential of...

96 min

Bioregional Living: A Permaculture Guide to Food and Energy Independence | Andrew Faust

In this 30 minute video, Andrew Faust shares his inspiring vision for greater food and energy independence. It's a guide to feeding and providing power for our local communities in ways that are not just "sustainable" but truly regenerative and life-nourishing for humans and...

31 min

Why I Stopped Protesting and Started a Garden

The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack...

John Halstead

Incredibly Abundant 1-Acre Permaculture Homestead Tour

In Episode 3 of Permaculture Tours we revisit the amazing Limestone Permaculture Farm. in NSW, Australia. We first visited Limestone back in 2015, when Brett and Nici were five years into developing their 1-acre permaculture property, working full time off-farm and creating...

18 min

Homesteading Family Living Off-Grid in a Spectacular Earthship

This inspiring off-grid homesteading family lives in a renovated stone earthship. They grow their own food, collect rainwater, use solar power, have composting toilets, and they have a pond that filters their grey water. On top of living an eco friendly lifestyle, they...

15 min

How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden | Grow Food Not Lawns

This video is a demonstration of how to turn your yard into a garden.

13 min

The Story of Food (2020)

This is a 'No Fresh Carbon Footprint' Docuseries.

179 min

5 Fast Growing Veggies You Can Harvest in Under 1 Month

If you're just getting started on your first garden, it's important to have early success. These 5 groups of crops are extremely easy and fast to grow, so you can have your first successful harvest and build your gardening confidence.

12 min

5 Ways Coronavirus Could Help Humanity Survive the Ecological Crisis

The human tragedy of the coronavirus is immense. Thousands have died, hundreds of thousands have been infected globally, and millions more have been affected. Whilst infectious disease has always been a part of the human experience, the expansion of industrial civilization...

Matt Mellen

The Biggest Little Farm (2019) ($3)

The Biggest Little Farm chronicles the eight-year quest of John and Molly Chester as they trade city living for 200 acres of barren farmland and a dream to harvest in harmony with nature. Through dogged perseverance and embracing the opportunity provided by nature's...

92 min

Iowa’s Vision of a More Beautiful World, 10 Years After Passing a Green New Deal

What would America's heartland be like, 10 years after we pass a Green New Deal?

8 min

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