Vertical Hydroponic Shipping Container
Check out this vertical hydroponic shipping container – called the Leafy Green Machine (LGM).
Inglorious Foods
A French supermarket loves to sell ugly food. Would you buy ugly food?
Why Do We Waste $1 Trillion of Food a Year?
“’Ugly’ and deformed food often gets left in fields to rot. How can we help reduce this food waste?”
How Reducing Food Waste Could Ease Climate Change
As a class or part of an additional assignment, read the following article and discuss the relationship between food waste and climate change.
Farmers Look After their Livestock
Stories straight from the producer. Learn how farmers take care of their livestock.
What is Gluten?
Gluten is becoming a mainstream topic these days, with gluten-free diets becoming increasingly popular. But what is gluten and why is it important?
Straight Talk on Hormones in Beef
Canada’s Beef Cattle Research Council (BCRC) has collected some interesting stats on the estrogen level in beef.
Saskatchewan Grains: From Field to Port
Watch the Sask Wanderer explore the journey grain takes from the field, to storage and all over the world!
John Green – Food is Weird
Although John struggles pronouncing the word ‘hectares’ his points are valid. Africa has 60% of the world’s potential farmland and if Best Management Practices and technologies were implemented they would be a powerhouse.
Bill Gates and John Green – African Ag
Watch Bill Gates and John Green discuss agriculture around the world, and the opportunity to increase productivity and sustainable agriculture in third world nations such as Africa.