Video Library
4-H Gardening
with Kids!
Check out this video on gardening with youth in your 4-H program. This webinar highlights some of the activities from the Junior Master Gardener curricula and surely will inspire kids to do!
17 minute video
‘Āina Lessons:
Farm to Fork in Hawai‘i
Learn, grow, cook with the Hawai‘i Institute of Pacific Agriculture in this spectacular video series!
16 videos ranging from 5-22 minutes
Webinar for Farmers (January 2020):
Contracting with Hawaiʻi DOE's ‘Aina Pono Farm to School Program
Learn more about the Hawaii Department of Education School Food Services Branch's ‘Aina Pono Farm to School Program, including info on contracting with the DOE and insight from farmers, aggregators, and distributors from their experiences.
1 hour, Webinar
Delicious Life Lessons
This video by Grow Some Good gives a tour of local food inspirations happening early in school gardens on Maui with our keiki. Local chefs mentor students during harvest festivals each year in recipe workshops showing how delicious farm to table living can be. We are so thankful for our community, helping us grow more Delicious Life Lessons with kids.
3 min. & 37 sec.
DIRT
DIRT! The Movie takes you inside the wonders of the soil. It tells the story of Earth's most valuable and under-appreciated source of fertility--from its miraculous beginning to its crippling degradation The opening scenes of the film dive into the wonderment of the soil. Made from the same elements as the stars, plants and animals, and us, "dirt is very much alive." Though, in modern industrial pursuits and clamor for both profit and natural resources, our human connection to and respect for soil has been disrupted. "Drought, climate change, even war are all directly related to the way we are treating dirt." "The only remedy for disconnecting people from the natural world is connecting them to it again." What we've destroyed, we can heal.
1 hour & 20 min.
E ‘Ai Kākou
Education program featuring cooking demonstrations using Hawaiian staple food.
https://oiwi.tv/tag/e-ai-kakou/
1 hour
Farm to School for Children with Special Needs
While farm to school offers abundant benefits for all children, we have learned from our partners that the core elements of farm to school – including hands on education, spending time in gardens, and cooking and tasting local food – offers additional benefits to students with special needs, supporting their learning and growth in many different environments.
https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/9175883414775831554
FoodTank
Specifically in response to COVID-19, FoodTank is conducting live interviews every day featuring incredible guest speakers. Their Youtube also includes TedTalk like talks with folks from the food industry. This video is one of many. Use this video as a link to thier channel to find others.
25 min. - 2 hours
Good Gardening Videos
Learn to garden and be inspired by over 1,000 gardening videos curated for accuracy and quality. Use the Search Box, Browse by Topic, or go to Best Videos for each month in the sidebar. Good Gardening Videos is pro-science, pro-environment, ad-free and nonprofit.
Harvesting the Most From Your Garden
Webinar from 2016 from KidsGardening that talks about how to get the most out of your garden including getting food into the cafeteria.
1 hour
Hawai‘i Farm to School Hui (Youtube Channel)
The Hawaiʻi Farm to School Hui's YouTube channel features several playlists and many videos aimed at strengthening Hawaiiʻs farm to school movement! This video is one of many. Use this video as a link to their channel to find others.
HIDOE Grow:
School Gardens
See what a couple of Hawaii's public schools have been doing in their school gardens! School gardens are integral to the Farm to School movement. It provides outdoor learning experiences for students. It can connect students to their food and environment. Interviews from Waikiki Elementary's Mindful Garden and Makaha Elementary's partnership with their farm neighbors Hoa Aina O Makaha.
29 minutes
Hoa ʻĀina o Mākaha
Take a field trip to Hoa ʻĀina o Mākaha's educational farm on Oʻahu.
6 min. 48 sec.
Hope for Kids - The Kohala Center
See the work The Kohala Center has done with school gardens on Hawaiʻi Island.
6 min. 36 sec.
Keep on Growing: Garden Ideas for Indoors
Webinar from Chartwellʻs 2016 Eat. Learn. Live. and Grow Webinar Series that ives examples of growing models indoors. This is mostly applicable to places that get cold in the winter, but could be applicable to a school with limited growing space.
57 minutes
Kids Win and Farms Win: What Do We Know About the Impacts of Farm to School
Advocates claim that 'kids win, farmers win, and communities win' from policies, programming and initiatives that promote farm to school. However, what do we know about the extent to which this is true? Recent research funded by the USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture provides interesting insights into the kids win and farms win impacts of farm to school efforts. This webinar features researchers from Colorado State University and University of Illinois, highlighting recent and ongoing research and important areas for future farm to school work.
52 minutes
Living In a Food Desert Documentary
Lynchburg to Wise County and all points in between approximately 17.8 percent of Virginia's population live in food desert. This documentary was produced by VSU as part of a study on food insecurity in the College of Agriculture.
46 minutes
Māla‘ai YouTube Channel
Meet local beekeepers, learn about the Hawai‘i Island School Garden Network, receive guidance on hosting school garden volunteers during COVID, visit one of Hawaii’s most amazing model school garden programs, and more! This video is one of many. Use this video as a link to their channel to find others.
Seeds of Hope
Several years ago board members of the Hawai`i Rural Development Council (HRDC), a nonprofit that supports the economic and social welfare of rural communities, decided that the best way to raise awareness of the need for greater self-sufficiency was to make a film.
55 minutes
The Soil Story: Unearthing Connections Between Climate Change, the Food We Eat, and Human Health
Webinar that goes over importance of soil health and runs through Kiss the Ground's Soil Story curriculum.
1 hour 25 min.
ThinkTech Hawaii - Waipahu Future Farmers of America
On the show we've talked about local food programs for kids with the Farm to School network and we've talked about apprenticeships and training programs for adults that are already at the career stage. Today, Justine talks to students of the Waipahu chapter of the national Future Farmers of America program, an inter-curricular student organization for those interested in agriculture and leadership.
45 minutes
Urban Agriculture Academy
In the Academy, students learn how to take traditional agriculture principles and adapt them for the city, by utilizing a dedicated space on Bryan High’s campus and a small plot of land donated by a private farm down the street from the school.
https://iloveps.org/films/urban-agriculture-academy
6 minutes
Homegrown Hawai'i by Agrilogic Consulting
Discover the issues surrounding food security in Hawai'i in this timely documentary that addresses the importnace of local food production. Join Hawai'i producers,agricultural experts, and industry leaders as they discuss how they get local products to local consumers and why it is so important to the economy.