There are some things that are just about impossible to really explain in words - like shearing a sheep or a complex gymnastic move. Videos make a lot of those hands-on activities intelligible and accessible.
Graham Brookman has been joined by experienced videographer Sam Collins to create the first series of 'how to' videos, ranging from practical straw bale building techniques to controlling codling moth in your apple trees. It is staggering how much information can be stacked into these short movies using the You Tube 10 minute maximum format .
See the films at http://www.youtube.com/user/TheFoodForest
High grade copies of the videos are available on DVD by arrangement (A charge is made for these products)
Current videos available free on You Tube are grouped under themes:
Beer
- Bottling your beer
- Brewing from malted barley pts1-2
- Kit Brewing
- Spray rendering straw-bale buildings
- Zucchini Rampage
- Victorian Farmers Market Assn workshop on certification of stall-holders and markets
- Food for the future
- The future of meat
- Organic codling moth control
- Sunscreen for plants
- Establishing an organic vineyard
- Bird netting for tree crops
- Making Nocino from green walnuts
- David Holmgren - founder of the permaculture concept
- Steve Payne - Editor of Permaculture International Magazine and Organic Gardener magazine
- 'Design for Life - The Movie' (trailer to the 68 minute movie and the DVD)
- How to slaughter geese
Wine
- Cold stabilisation of wine