Farm for the Future - BBC Dokumentary 2009!

Natural World: Farm for the Future
BBC documentary on the precient global farming and food crisis, filmed in the UK.
Topics covered are the influence of oil on the food production, peak-oil, food security, carbon emissions, sustainability and permaculture.

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  Science & Technology

[Jefferdaughter]

Sigh. A horse can produce MUCH more than '1 horsepower'! Horses can drag logs out of the woods. Can you do that with a 1 horsepower engine? Can a two horsepower engine actually plow a field as shown in the video??? I expected better from the BBC.

[Brian Goddard]

WONDERFUL film! Just finished watching it. I have been implementing a Food Forest on my 3 acres in rural N. County San Diego, California. Permaculture is the ONLY way of the future. Harvest rain, retain all water fallen on the farm.. do not rush it off but create ponds & swales. Throw now greens away but built worm bins then inoculate the soil with them. Keep Rabbits, Chickens & Ducks for pest control and natural fertilizing & aeration of the soil. Plant in vertical layers to create shade.

[Christopher Kelly]

Horses can drag a lot of weight... but it is a matter of time, how fast they can pull something. "The mechanical horsepower, also known as imperial horsepower, of exactly 550 foot-pounds per second is approximately"

[MrsD7777]

Nature is Genius...Man is NOT!

[Rūdolfs Bratkus]

Good documentary.

[FORMIERDA]

please make the conection go vegan!!!. I'm vegan and I am pefecly healthy so why waste the world and be inefecient. make a diference go vegan and make a change, make the conection and save the world, vegan is the word!

[FORMIERDA]

go vegan and no onone gets hurt!! the answer is to go vegan so please go vegan and you make everyone a favour and you live a long healthy live for a long time wilst you make a favour for humanity and nature!

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[Joey Lopez]

wait @25:38 does she really suggest not to do any trenching? isnt that what makes the soil soft and air rates it?

[amemy2]

Its a great system.

[amemy2]

yep; shoot is in jet exhausts. Why not ask some pilots what they think?

NOt sure what you mean by the last bit; you will find that the internet is a good way to meet cranks, who support you view, and nothing on the netto discount them. if it makes you happy, then on you go; not a healthy place to be though.

 I should ask some pilots; they might just have noticed the od stuff coming out of the engines. means leaving the keyboard, (and dont be surprised to get laughed at).

[amemy2]

???? Thought this was about farming? WTF.

[mlekaricamilka]

Well i don't want that god damn thing over my fields or house any way. Vapor or not.