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On average, each of us scarfs up about 140 pounds of this delectable tuber a year. It's a $2 billion industry, but just a fraction of the potatoes ...
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
Organic food is becoming trendy, and you?ll be seeing more of it at your supermarket, it?ll probably be cheaper to.
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
The Ashtabula River in Ohio flows into Lake Erie, one of the four Great Lakes.
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
The growing use of hydroponics in agriculture is letting people get local produce even in places where the climate is chilly.
- Added: Jan 29, 2007
- Length: 04:02
Chef is encouraging farmers to grow local food for new trend in restaurants.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 29, 2007
- Length: 04:29
- Purchases: 1
A study in the journal Nature found that up to 90 percent of the larger specimens of these species have disappeared from the world's oceans.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Jan 12, 2007
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Fish farming - also known as aquaculture - helps to keep fish stocks up and prevent over-fishing. But fish farms are usually located in shallow wat...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Dec 17, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Many of the world's fisheries and marine ecosystems are in trouble from overfishing and high "bycatch" - the accidental killing of millions of mari...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Dec 17, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Open-field coffee cultivation emerged some 30 years ago. While the method may be productive in the short run, it often degrades the environment, an...
- Added: Dec 01, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 3
Aquaculture is becoming big business in a hungry world. The challenge is to develop methods and technologies that produce sustainable yields while ...
- Added: Dec 01, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 3
Farmers are raising 'heritage' turkeys to preserve DNA
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and Prairie Public
- Added: Nov 20, 2006
- Length: 04:04
- Purchases: 2
A reporter's attempt to buy all of the ingredients in his Thanksgiving meal from sources within 100 miles, right down to the salt.
Bought by PRX Remix, KISU, Delta College Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KZYX and more
- Added: Nov 20, 2006
- Length: 04:04
- Purchases: 30
- Added: Nov 17, 2006
- Length: 04:51
a small community in Vermont revitalizes the old New England tradition of ice cutting and in the process talks about sustainability, communal livin...
Bought by CKMO and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Jul 20, 2006
- Length: 11:13
- Purchases: 2
Spending a day with an organic farmer from Pierpont, Missouri
- Added: Mar 06, 2006
- Length: 08:19
Californians rediscover their olive groves.
- Added: Dec 02, 2003
- Length: 15:45
- Purchases: 3