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 Paul
Stamets - Mushrooms as Allies: Potentiating Planetary Host
Defenses through Fungi. Tilth Producers 2003
Conference Workshop. (1 hr. 15 min.; 8.63 MB)
Dr.
Vandana Shiva - Agriculture for Life: Beyond the suicidal
Economy of Industrial Farming & Globalized Agriculture.
Tilth's 30th Anniversary Conference Keynote Address November
2004. (58 min.; 6.74 MB)
Dr.
Fred Provenza - The Role of New Science in Sustainable &
Organic Agriculture (with introduction by Kent Mullinex).
Tilth Producers 2005 Conference Keynote Address. (1 hr. 09
min.; 7.95 MB)
An
Audio Tour of Seattle's University Ave. Farmers Market.
An episode of KUOW's Exploring Seattle Series. (23 min.; 2.8
MB)
Helena Norberg-Hodge: Bringing the Food Economy Home,
Helena Norberg-Hodge's Keynote Address at the 2006 Tilth
Producers of Washington Conference in Vancouver, WA.
Introduction by Tilth Producers President Anne Schwartz.
Helena Norberg-Hodge is a leading analyst of the impact of
the global economy on cultures and agriculture worldwide. (1
hr. 10 min.; 8.07 MB)
Information about Helena Norberg-Hodge’s work and
publications can be found at:
The
International Society for Ecology & Culture.
Wheeler & Pilarski: Growing Medicinal Plants
Mark Wheeler of Pacific
Botanicals in Grants Pass, OR and Michael "Skeeter" Pilarski of Friends of the
Trees Society will talk about their vast experience growing medicinals as cash crops and as multiple-use elements in the farm ecosystem. Topics include large and small-scale production, harvesting, processing, marketing, agroforestry, and permaculture plus little-known facts about growing and harvesting a few specific species.
(1 hr. 21 min.; 9.37 MB)
Creating a Regional Food System
Panelists: Helena Norberg-Hodge, a leading analyst on the
impact of the global economy on cultures and agriculture
world wide, Gary Paul Nabhan, ethnobotanist and author of
Coming Home to Eat, and Fred Fleming, a Reardan, Washington
wheat farmer and co-founder of Columbia Plateau Producers
and Shepherd’s Grain, describe what will be required to
develop strong regional food systems. (1 hr. 18 min.; 9.4 MB)
Wendell Berry's Keynote Speech at Tilth's 20th Anniversary
Kentucky farmer, essayist and poet Wendell Berry, often
cited as an original inspiration for the Tilth movement,
delivers the Tilth Organizations' 20th Anniversary Keynote
Speech entitled Conserving Communities in Portland,
OR, Nov. 1994. (1 hr. 14 min.; 8.9 MB)
The Compost Foodweb– Making Great Compost
Dr. Elaine Ingham of Soil Foodweb, Inc. Corvallis,
Oregon and Soil Foodweb Institute, New South Wales,
Australia describes in precise detail the composting process
and how the organic farmer or backyard gardener can make
compost that really works. From the Tilth 30th anniversary
conference in Portland, OR in 2004 (2 hr. 05 min.; 14.3 MB)
The Soil Foodweb and Compost Tea
Dr. Elaine Ingham of Soil Foodweb, Inc. Corvallis,
Oregon and Soil Foodweb Institute, New South Wales,
Australia describes in precise detail the processes of
making and using aerobic compost tea and how the organic
farmer or backyard gardener can make aerobic compost tea
that really works. From the Tilth 30th anniversary
conference in Portland, OR in 2004 (1 hr. 51 min.; 12.8 MB)
Organic Seeds in the Era of Transgenes
Dr. Alan Kapular, former Research Director for Seeds of
Change and founder of Peace Seeds and JJ Haapala, former
Director of Research and Education for Oregon Tilth and
former Project Administrator for the Farmer Cooperative
Geneome Project. Issues covered include: Public domain vs.
private patent– ownership of seeds, germplasm and plant
varieties; Impact of genetic engineering on seed saving;
What do advances in genetic technology mean to the organic
community? (1 hr. 24 min.; 9.63 MB) |
