TEDxManhattan - Michelle Hughes - Local Food, Immigrant Farmers
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Michelle Hughes is the Director of GrowNYC's New Farmer Development Project (NFDP), which identifies and trains immigrants with agricultural experience to establish their own family farms. Since 2000, the project has supported the establishment of 22 immigrant-owned farms by offering production and business training, land identification, marketi... Read more
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- -: TEDxManhattan - Michelle Hughes - Local Food, Immigrant Farmers
February 6, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Michelle Hughes is the Director of GrowNYC's New Farmer Development Project (NFDP), which identifies and trains immigrants with agricultural experience to establish their own family farms. Since 2000, the project has supported the establishment of 22 immigrant-owned farms by offering production a...
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- -: TEDxNapaValley - Nicolette Hahn Niman - "Eating As We Farm"
January 14, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Nicolette Hanhn Niman talks about "Eating As We Farm" as part of the TEDxNapaValley "Empowering Leadership at Every Level" event. Nicolette Hahn Niman an attorney and livestock rancher. Much of her time is spent speaking and writing about the problems resulting from industrialized livestock prod...
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- -: TEDxAsheville - Birke Baehr - What it means to speak at TEDx
December 17, 2011 (over 12 years ago)[Birke's original TEDxNextGenerationAsheville talk is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7Id9caYw-Y] An Internationally recognized speaker and youth advocate for sustainable food and agriculture, Birke has visited and worked at farms around the United States and recently returned from a stint...
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- -: Triscuit Helps Ellen Plant a Home Farm
October 11, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Today Ellen welcomed Taja Sevelle, the head of Urban Farming, to tell her about the Triscuit Home Farming Movement. Together they planted a home farm for Ellen.
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- -: TEDx Anchorage 2011 - Amy Petit - Alaska Grown and You, Opportunities to Eat Local
April 16, 2011 (about 13 years ago)# Amy Pettit Amy Pettit was raised on a cow-calf operation on the Southern Oregon Coast where her father is a 3rd generation rancher. Amy lived and worked on a farm in Australia while pursuing her Bachelors' degree from Oregon State University in Agricultural Business Management. She then worked ...
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- -: TEDxSanJoseCA - Jonathan Trent, PhD - Can We Cultivate Energy?
April 18, 2011 (about 13 years ago)NASA Nanotechnology Scientist To provide practical answers to critical questions regarding sustainable energy, Jonathan Trent initiated a project called "Global Research into Energy and the Environment at NASA (GREEN)." This project, supported by Google, led him to investigate biofuels that do n...
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- -: TEDxTucsonSalon Michael Carmody - I want to be an organic farmer
April 19, 2011 (about 13 years ago)For the first TEDxTucson community project we are focusing on local job creation, and we've created The Local Jobs Movement. The intention is to leverage the attraction of TEDx to help Tucson become more sustainable and resilient. Our first Salon on April 19 is about local food, and so we went ou...
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- -: TEDxManhattan - Josh Viertel - Building a Slow Food Nation
May 5, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Josh Viertel, President of Slow Food USA, dreams of a world where fruit is cheaper than fruit loops and there are more school gardens than McDonald's has franchises. More information at www.tedxmanhattan.org About TEDx, x = independently organized event: In the spirit of ideas worth spreading,...
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- -: TEDxManhattan - Kathy Lawrence - Transforming School Food
May 13, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Transforming School Food: Leveraging the Power of Public Procurement. Kathy Lawrence, Program Director of School Food FOCUS, discusses the broken school food system. More information at www.tedxmanhattan.org About TEDx, x = independently organized event: In the spirit of ideas worth spreadin...
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- -: TEDxThessaloniki - Michael Zouloumidis - Farming, Entrepreneurship and Astronauts
May 14, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Michael Zouloumidis is a farmer and talks about spirulina and how a business idea with proper planning can be profitable. Michael Zouloumidis full bio: http://www.tedxthessaloniki.com/speaker/michael-zouloumidis About TEDx, x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spread...
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