Ag teachers,

I try to use a variety of video/DVD materials in my classroom to enhance
instruction.  While I do not use all these videos, all the time, or even
in their entirety – I have found that they usually stimulate good
classroom discussions with my students.  Also, rather than spending an
entire class period on a video, sometimes we watch a video over a period
of several days.

I have created worksheets for all the videos that I use in class and I
would be happy to share them with you.  If you are interested, please
send me an email and I will forward you a copy of the student video
sheet and the teacher answer sheet.

FEATURED VIDEO/DVD OF THE WEEK:

City Farmers  (2008) – A short documentary film that shows how urban
landscapes of despair can be transformed into thriving community
gardens.  The film shows gardeners young and old working together to
improve neighborhoods and reconnect with nature.

Reviews from Amazon.com
“City Farmers is a cornucopia of hope, fulfillment and diversity...a
journey down New York City's meanest streets where inner-city residents
transform the rubble and rats of abandoned land into burgeoning
vegetable and flower gardens.

In this collective narrative, the gardeners share stories about life on
both sides of the garden fence; from the struggle to remove drug dealers
and gangs to the success of the gardens providing food for the
community, as well as empowering and educating neighborhood children.

As the gardeners tend their rows, they remember childhood days on farms
down South, in Italy, or Puerto Rico, while others, who've known only
pavement under their feet, find new directions for their futures. These
gardens are sources of pride in communities that previously had none.

In their quest to find dignified and graceful solutions for the
revitalization of their neighborhoods, New York's urban crusaders are as
triumphant as their seedlings - defying the broken landscape with an
unconquerable spirit and an intrepid will to survive.”

You may purchase a DVD of City Farmers  through Amazon.com.  It is
$22.00.  Here is a
linkhttp://www.amazon.com/City-Farmers-Home-Meryl-Joseph/dp/B001OI36I0/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1238451650&sr=1-3

- Libby Lintel

Other video worksheets available:

A Man Named Pearl
Agriculture – America’s Most Crucial Industry
American Harvest
Guns, Germs, and Steel
King Corn


Libby Lintel
Horticulture Teacher
Kennesaw Mountain High School
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