Growing Solutions: Soil, Water, Farmers, Seeds, Roots

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 who’s growing topsoil faster than most thought possible, a seed-saving high school, a farmer training program for military veterans, and researchers who are developing a perennial style of agriculture that mimics the prairie.

Index:
0:00 - Introduction
1:58 - Soil
13:49 - Water
19:11 - Farmers
24:41 - Seeds
30:01 - Roots
38:26 - Closing

This 42-minute documentary film – produced by the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future – is part of the FoodSpan curriculum, which provides an overview of the food system for high school students. http://www.foodspan.org

Find other videos in the series below:
Food Frontiers
   • FOOD FRONTIERS  

Out to Pasture: The Future of Farming
   • Out to Pasture: The Future of Farming?