NOFA Video Project

Introductory Videos

To rent or buy these introductory videos, simply specify the format - VHS or DVD - and send a check for $20 for each video along with a printout of the order form to the NOFA Video Project. If you only want to borrow the video, return it in original condition within 30 days and we'll send you back $10.

If you would like to borrow one video and exchange it for another when you are through, please send a $10 check along with the first video when you return it. When we receive a returned video without a new order, we'll send you your full refund to conclude the transaction.

Organic Practices in the Northeast  #8801
This is a narrated 30 minute introduction to the priniciples of organic growing and stewardship. The video explains the basic ideas behind organic agriculture and includes sections on potting mixes, composting, soil preparation, green manuring, using poultry in the garden, pest control, lawn care, nutrition, orchard management, and the organic response to genetic engineering.

Organic Pest and Weed Control  #8802
This is a 30 minute explanation of organic methods of controlling insects, weeds, disease and fungus. Narration guides us through the history and problems of chemical controls, the difficulties of making the organic transition, and the specifics of interplanting, crop rotation, tree maintenance, greenhouse management, and examples of controlling weeds, potato bugs, aphids, caterpillars, plum curculio and crabgrass.

Choices for Our Land  #8901
This 30 minute video shows that farming can still be an attractive financial option throughout the Northeast. Experts in seedlings, perennial flowers, berries, organic poultry, specialty vegetables, garlic and sheep, baking bread and keeping bees, talk about their methods, their markets and the financial return. Also covered are some ways farm land can be protected from development by special assessments, deeded use restictions and sale of development rights.

Building an Organic Soil  #8902
This 30 minute video examines the science of soil and discusses how healthy soil is created. Professional soil experts and farmers explain how soil is formed, the many varieties of it to be found in the Northeast, its structure, the manner in which nutrients are created and used, and how soil deficiencies can be identified. A number of methods of building a living, fertile soil are presented - composting, liming, manuring, pasturing, rotating vegetables with animals tilling and erosion control.

Organic Weed Control  #9001
Finally a separate video on the major problem confronting organic vegetable farmers - weeds! This 30 minute video discusses weed identification and control measures, including crop competition, tillage, cover cropping, grazing, crop rotation, sheet mulches, transplanting and focused irrigation. In this narrated video we meet both farmers and researchers, and learn about these techniques in the classroom as well as see examples of them in the field.

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