Field Crops DVD

This video profiles farmers who grow field crops, either as part of livestock operations or as cash grains. The farmers stress the importance of soil fertility and explain how they achieve it. Sections include manure management, crop rotations, cover crops, green manures, weed control methods and pest management systems. An excellent resource. 29 min. $69.95

In this effective video, farmers demonstrate ways in which they have increased the value of what they sell. Strategies include direct and cooperative marketing, processing and organic certification. 29 min. $69.95

Faced with consumer pressure, narrow profit margins and a shrinking arsenal of pesticides, these apple growers have turned to IPM practices to battle one of the most difficult apple pest complexes in the world. Apple maggot, leaf roller, codling moth and plum curculio controls are examined, as well as treatments for diseases like apple scab. 29 min. $69.95

For many growers, the first step toward lower pesticide use is the practice of Integrated Pest Management. This method stresses the use of chemicals only as a last resort. Farmers illustrate ways to limit sprays by close monitoring of pest populations and by finding cultural and biological alternatives to pesticides. 29 min. $69.95

Intensive grazing systems make efficient, inexpensive use of pastures and offer dairy, beef, and sheep farmers a way to lower costs and thereby stay in business. Some farmers combine rotational grazing with feeding grain. Others rely exclusively on pasture and do not feel the need to devote time, money, equipment or chemicals to grow field crops. 29 min. $69.95

The growers in this video have responded to the increasing demand by consumers for safe, high quality food. Many grow vegetables organically. They also emphasize soil fertility and describe ways to achieve it with manure, composting systems, crop rotations, cover crops and green manure. Weed and insect control strategies are also discussed. 29 min. $69.95

In this DVD set you will Explore sustainable planning and design, see practical and economical applications of resourceful technology, learn appropriate landscapeing principles to add beauty, function, ecconomy. Four titles included on two DVD disks as listed below. Total programming time is 127 minutes. $396.00

Sustainable Design Series DVD Set
Sustainable Architecture	38 min.
Resourceful Materials and Methods for Building Construction	24 min.
Sustainable Landscape: Ecological Design Principles	32 min.
Sustainable Environments	33 min.

See practical and economical applications of resourceful technology in this effective new video. Join award winning architect and builder, Randy Dettmer, AIA, as he shows you how resourceful construction technology can be incorporated into any building project. From recycled styrofoam block wall systems to “hay bale” construction, this program will introduce you to a wide variety of construction products and techniques which are sensitive and responsive to our world ecology and limited resources. 22 min. $119.00

Explore planning and design; basic building design; embodied energy and resource use in buildings; heating, cooling and ventilation; lighting; infrastructures; and a holistic, or complete, view of the whole building and design process. This program has interviews with Robert & Diane Gilman, Amory Lovins of Rocky Mountain Institute and Mike & Judy Corbett of Village Homes. You’ll also hear from professors of Vernacular Architecture, Sustainable Design and Community Planning, an Indoor Environmental Quality Specialist, two Solar Architects, a General Building Contractor, a Landscape Architect and two other Architecture Professors. 38 min. $119.00

This popular program defines sustainability and then explores how sustainable systems, or loops, work in the natural world. You’ll examine the elements of sustainable environments including: diversity, interdependence, the ability to adapt or evolve and how resources are utilized. This is followed by effective examples of how this understanding can lead to solutions in the design and implementation of the built environment. With interesting interviews and a wide variety of locations, you’ll see how sustainability can be applied to agriculture, transportation systems, buildings and landscapes, and life-styles and work. This is ideal for introducing students to the understanding and importance of working towards sustainability with an interdisciplinary approach. 33 min. $119.00

Learn appropriate landscaping principles to add beauty, function, economy and sustainability to a design. Enhance the surrounding green space areas; utilize natural growth habits of plants; increase biodiversity; select and group plants to promote water efficiency & microclimate control; grade landscapes to promote ground water recharge and to discourage erosion and runoff and see techniques to harvest the nutrient, energy and water resources of the landscape. VHS 32 min. $119.00