Virtual Farm Tours
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DVD: Au Natural Farm: Organic Horticulture & Marketing

This 18 minute video demonstrates the successful farming system Paul and Alison Wiediger have developed in Kentucky. It provides a general overview of the farming system and highlights two key components: high tunnel or hoophouse production and electronic communication to market their products. 

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DVD: Maple Spring Garden: Organic Horticulture & Marketing
This 18 minute video demonstrates the successful farming system Ken Dawson has developed in North Carolina. It provides a general overview of the farming system and highlights two key components: plasticulture and hired labor. This video has already won two prestigious national video awards. It won first place in the Media Communication Association International Golden Reel competition and, from over 10,000 entries, this video placed second in the Telly Awards.
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DVD: Management Intensive Grazing
In this video, ranchers LeVonna and Tony Uekman give viewers a guided tour of their 80-acre farm at Quitman, Arkansas, where they run stocker cattle. Technical topics, such as special fencing and watering systems, are comprehensively discussed as the veteran MIG producers show step-by-step the process they followed in creating a highly successful beef production operation using MIG principals.
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DVD: Pastured Turkey Production
This video featuring poultry producer Mike Walters of Stilwell, Oklahoma, covers a gamut of topics including hatching and raising birds on pasture, managing pastures and related facilities for peak production, and marketing the final product. Beginning commercial production in 1995, Mike Walters of Mike Walters Hatchery has become one of the leading growers and marketers of heritage turkeys and processed products in America. 
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DVD: Cut Flowers
The video features processes, equipment, and other aspects of Dripping Springs Gardens, a five-acre organic flower, vegetable and fruit farm near Huntsville, Arkansas
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DVD: Pastured Meat Goat Production
This video illustrates the story of Bill Legg's pastured meat goat operation, within the setting of his diverse Tennessee farm.  The practical information includes goat breeds and breeding tips, pasture management, pest control, marketing, and more - as told by the farmer.
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DVD: Pastured Broilers on a Limited Budget
This video provides insight into all aspects of Beth Tillery's diverse and sustainable operation in Mckee, KY, from buying chicks to processing and marketing. Beth shares her tips on housing, feeding and watering, and pasture rotation with limited resources. She also explains how the poultry operation fits into the management and economics of a diversified farm that includes grass fed beef, dairy cows, specialty flowers, and fruits and vegetables.
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DVD: Artisan Cheese Production and Marketing
This video featuring Jessica and Jeremy Little, owners of Sweet Grass Dairy, provides information about start-up and development of a handcrafted cheese enterprise. It highlights the importance and value of milk production practices, use of refurbished and adapted equipment, and a diversified marketing strategy. It provides an overview of everything from cheese making regulations and techniques to financial accounting and business management.
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DVD: Pasture-Based Dairy Farming
Blair and Kim Sanders, owners of Black Hollow Dairy near Dublin, VA, decided about 7 years ago to switch from a conventional system to a pasture-based seasonal grazing system. In this video they share their knowledge and expertise on many aspects of their seasonal grazing system including calving, milking, feeding, breeding, fencing, pasture management, equipment, and recordkeeping. For the Sanders, the advantages of this type of operation far outweigh any challenges. They have been able to stay in business, be profitable, and enjoy a high quality of life.
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DVD: From Fields to Market
Joseph Fields Farm, LLC is a 50 acre certified organic farm on Johns Island, South Carolina. It is owned and operated by Helen and Joseph Fields. They produce primarily vegetables, growing most every kind of vegetable that can be grown in this region, as well as strawberries and some tree fruits. This DVD focuses on the diverse marketing avenues they utilize in selling their large quantities of produce. They sell through a cooperative, a small CSA, some groceries & restaurants, an on-farm stand, u-pick and several farmers' markets.
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Windows Only CD-ROM: Organic Vegetable Production and Marketing in the South, with Alex Hitt of Peregrine Farm
A first of its kind all-in-one tool, Southern SAWG’s exciting new educational tool is packed with valuable information to help vegetable farmers with their enterprises. Topics include soil building, certification, transplants, pest management, irrigation, marketing, and recordkeeping. Each of the thirteen chapters features extensive educational material and resources, along with photos, and segments for each chapter with Alex Hitt, North Carolina farmer and educator, showing “How it Works at Peregrine Farm.”