Teaching Organic Farming and Gardening

Unit 3.4 | 19

Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems

My Father’s Garden. 1995. Miranda Productions
Inc.; producer, Abigail Wright; director, Miranda
Smith; writer, Nathaniel Kahn (58 minutes).

Weaves together the personal stories of the

loss of family farms, the role of chemical

pesticides in changing the structure of American

agriculture, and Fred Kirschmann’s efforts to

make his farm ecologically and economically

sustainable. Available from:

http://www.bullfrogfilms.com

The Living Land. 1998. Foundation for Global
Community (27 minutes).

A thoughtful set of interviews with John

Jeavons, Wes Jackson, Alice Waters, and Mas

Masumoto on the values and practices of

alternative agriculture. Available from:

http://www.globalcommunity.org/cgvideo/land.htm

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