Movies on Gardening and Plants
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These movies explore gardening and plants and our relationship to them. They are mostly full length movies with high production values.
| Page | Title | Video description | URL | Amazon ID |
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| A teacher growing green in the South Bronx video 001 | A TED talk. Stephen Ritz, a teacher in New York's tough South Bronx, teaches kids to grow lush gardens for food, greenery, and jobs. | http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/stephen ritz a teacher growing green in the south bronx.html | ||
| Authors@Google: John Jeavons video 001 | John Jeavons has been the Director of the GROW BIOINTENSIVE Mini-Farming program for Ecology Action since 1972. He is the author of How to Grow More Vegetablesand Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops Than You Ever Thought Possible On Less Land Than You Can Imagine, the primer on sustainable Biointensive Mini-Farming. Widely regarded as a food, soil, and organic farming expert, his food-raising methods are being used in 141 countries and by such organizations as UNICEF, Save the Children, and the Peace Corps.
John Jeavons website: http://www.johnjeavons.info/ Ecology Action website: http://growbiointensive.org/ | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afHd9EhsJ1U | ||
| Back to Eden video 001 | Watch Paul Gautschi's journey with God to learn the benefits of using wood chip mulch in the garden. A short video review of the movie by Larry Hall: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CjptUYhEdU | http://backtoedenfilm.com/ | ||
| Bloomin In The Garden video 001 | Garden design and makeovers | B0012GVKYQ | ||
| Botany of Desire video 001 | PBS Documentary on the evolutionary relationship between plants and animals | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUIAzaGWf6A | ||
| Britta Riley: A garden in my apartment video 001 | A TED talk by Britta Riley about the open-source Hydroponic Window Gardens project. | http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/britta riley a garden in my apartment.html | ||
| DIRT! THE MOVIE video 001 | A humorous and serious look at the ground we walk on and our efforts to reconnect with it. Narrated by Jamie Lee Curtis. Free online viewing: | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt K4KaBjfo | ||
| DVD Encyclopedia of Garden Plants (2007) video 001 | Peter Seabrook and Anne Swithinbank cover plant selection, pest control, pruning, feeding, having year around color, and more. | B000LAZDO2 | ||
| DVD Encyclopedia of Roses (2007) video 001 | Peter Seabrook and Anne Swithinbank everything about growing roses. | B000LAZDNS | ||
| Doodling in Math: Spirals, Fibonacci, and Being a Plant video 001 | An amazing and fascinating exploration of symmetry in plants. | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOIP Z -0Hs | ||
| English Cottage and Country Gardens video 001 | Tour of some English country gardens | B000LMI15I | ||
| Everything You Know About Composting is Wrong: Mike Mike McGrath at TEDxPhoenixville video 001 | Mike explains in a very entertaining way some compost myths and the virtues of shredding leaves. Free Video. | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9OhxKlrWwc | ||
| Garden Song video 001 | A portrait of Alan Chadwick, actor, master gardener, and inventor of the "Biodynamic French Intensive Method". Looks like it is only available through the listed URL | http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/gs.html | ||
| Garden Story (2008) video 001 | Rather than how-to or visits to famous gardens, this focues on how gardens change our lives. | B0018SNYQ0 | ||
| Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn video 001 | Emmy-winning PBS series Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn | B000H6SXS8 | ||
| Greenfingers video 001 | A British comedy and romance based on a true story of prisoners that develop a passion for gardening. | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenfingers | B00005RYKX | |
| Greenhorns video 001 | A documentary film about young farmers. Link is just the trailer | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwnjs4kufG0 | ||
| Grow Your Own Vegetables video 001 | Cam Mather's Seven Easy Steps to your Own Backyard Produce Department. Cam Mather a 30 veteran of growing organic vegetables gives us a step by step guide for successful vegetable growing. | 0973323396 | ||
| Homestead Blessings: The Art of Gardening (2009) video 001 | For beginning gardeners, how to compost, grow large gardens, grow in containers, flowers, vegetables, etc. | B002SATC2C | ||
| How to Grow a Planet (Part 1) - Life from Light video 001 | Part 1 of a BBC 3 part documentary on the role plants played in the evolution of our planet. Currently available on YouTube | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VNt0mwStZI | ||
| How to Grow a Planet (Part 2) - The Power of Flowers video 001 | Part 2 of a BBC 3 part documentary on the role plants played in the evolution of our planet. Currently available on YouTube | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMq1kSzubWs | ||
| How to Grow a Planet - The Power of Flowers video 001 | Part 3 of a BBC 3 part documentary on the role plants played in the evolution of our planet. This episode focuses on how grass has shaped our world and the crucial role it played in human evolution. Currently available on YouTube | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMUJy5QmMDg | ||
| How we can eat our landscapes video 001 | A TED talk. Pam Warhurst, cofounder of Incredible Edible, talks about growing food locally by planting on unused land throughout the community. | http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/pam warhurst how we can eat our landscapes.html | ||
| King Corn video 001 | A entertaining and educational documentary that follows two friends efforts to grow corn commercially. Along the way they explore the history and economics for growing corn and how government policies on corn have changed our entire food landscape. | http://www.kingcorn.net | B001EP8EOY | |
| Know your Mushrooms video 001 | Learn more about the fantastic world of funji. Both the oldest and largest living organisms on earth are funji. | http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/know-your-mushrooms | B002C68WSM | |
| People Places & Plants (5 Disc Set) (2005) video 001 | 46 episodes on five discs, a combination talk, how-to, travel, and reality show about gardening with Roger Swain and Paul Tukey. | B000LPS2PO | ||
| Permaculture: Saving Humanity and the Earth video 001 | Toby Hemenway discuses downside of rise of agriculture and how permaculture can provide an alternative. Free Online viewing. | http://keentalks.com/permaculture-saving-humanity-and-the-earth/ | ||
| Planet Earth: The Complete BBC Series (2007) video 001 | A very high quality BBC production, a range of topics, but the plant parts are great. | B000MR9D5E | ||
| Plants for a Future video 001 | After ten years as a London bus driver, Ken Fern moves to the country and starts vegan-organic Permaculture garden with an emphasis on creating an ecologically sustainable environment based largely on perennial plants. You can read more about the foundation he established at: http://www.pfaf.org/ Watch free online. | http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/plants-for-a-future | ||
| Roger Doiron: My subversive (garden) plot video 001 | A TED talk by Roger Doiron, founder of Kitchen Gardeners International, about why you should grow a garden and how it can help re-localize our food. | http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/roger doiron my subversive garden plot.html | ||
| Secret Gardens of England video 001 | Alan Titchmarsh leads us on a tour of England's intriguing but not well known gardens. | B003NLQ81I | ||
| The Art & Practice of Gardening video 001 | 2-DVD set, Penelope Hobhouse England's leading garden writer, designer, historian, and lecturer, and host of The Art and Practice of Gardening explains the principles of graden design as she tours famous gardens. | B0010X5JBG | ||
| The Complete Gardener: Great Gardening Tips (2007) video 001 | Steve Brookes an award wining garden author. He presents money saving and innovative tips and show how to grow edibles not matter how small your garden is. | B000LAZDOC | ||
| The Complete Gardener: Planning & Maintenance video 001 | World renowned gardener Joe Maiden shows how to plan and maintain your garden. | B000LAZDOM | ||
| The Fruit Hunters video 001 | Documents our obsession with fruits, and our search for them. Trailer: http://vimeo.com/53036651 | B00BY8DKCM | ||
| The Great Gardens of England Collection video 001 | 6-DVD set, Tour 58 English gardens | B003NLQ82M | ||
| The Private Live of Plants video 001 | Wonderful book and movie by David Attenborough who also did Planet Earth. Explores many odd and unusual plants with great timelapse video and narration. Sadly the video version does not seem to be available in the USA at the moment | |||
| The Queen of the Sun - What Are the Bees Telling Us? video 001 | A highly rated move about bees. | B005ZMBDJK | ||
| The Real Dirt on Farmer John video 001 | Has won awards at over 30 film festivals. A documentary that follows Midwestern farmer John Peterson's journey from conventional to organic farming | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Real Dirt on Farmer John | B000WTVZ3U | |
| The Secret Garden video 001 | A wonderful and classic story of growing up and healing in the garden. Several movie versions are listed in the Wikipedia article. | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Secret Garden The Secret Garden | B002GIBVV6 | |
| The Secret Life of Plants video 001 | A beautiful (but unscientific) look at the concept that plants have more intelligence than we suspect. Some great timelapse sequences of plants growing. The soundtrack recorded by Stevie Wonder. Free online viewing | http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-secret-life-of-plants | ||
| The Tree video 001 | An Australian film about a family and a tree | http://www.thetreefilm.com | ||
| Urban Gardening - Ann Tanaka video 001 | Master Gardner Ann Tanaka talks about a wide range of urban gardening topics with a focus on what works in Hawaii. Free online viewing. | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxynwswCQug |