The World Vegetable Center, as the name implies, focuses on vegetables to reduce poverty and malnutrition. Their website has numerous, helpful resources and publications. Among them are videos on how to save vegetable seed. They cover amaranth, eggplant, nightshade (see EDN 103), pumpkin and...
Banana trees are very easy to grow for the gardener who likes delicious tree ripened tasty fruit, lush tropical foliage and the fastest growing - tallest of all flowering herbaceous plants. Ty Ty Nursery grows banana trees in fields just like row-crop farmers cultivate fields of cotton and corn....
Uploaded on May 23, 2007 Kath and Katie from Daleys Fruit Tree Nursery demonstrate the how and why of grafting fruit trees. Produced by Tacit Productions (contact Lachlan Forsyth)
Mission co-worker Mark Hare talks about the impact that seeds -- provided in part by the Presbyterian Hunger Program and Presbyterian Disaster Assistance -- have had in Haiti's recovery. The program is about "providing seeds as a way for Haitians to be Haitians" and "providing people options so...
Prices for irrigation, fertilizer, fuel and labor are rising. Fresh water supplies are decreasing, and many farmers find it increasingly difficult to plant their crop on time to assure good yields and return on their investments. This video shows how farmers in Bangladesh are innovating to...
Uploaded on Oct 12, 2010 Demonstration of terminal grafting method used to grow mango and other trees in one of Tree Aid's community tree nurseries in Burkina Faso, W. Africa. July 2008. In French with English subtitles. www.treeaid.org.uk