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230 WHO IS ECOLOGY ACTION?
Yang, Y. K. “Home Gardens as a Nutrition Intervention.” Small
Scale Intensive Food Production—Improving the Nutrition of
the Most Economically Disadvantaged Families, pp. 60–80,
Washington, D.C.: League for International Food Education,
1977.
Accredited Classes in Biointensive Mini-Farming
Dr. Ed Glenn and Dr. Mary Olsen of the Environmental
Research Laboratory (the University of Arizona) give a
Biointensive course for arid areas each semester based on their
10 years’ experience. Contact them at 2601 E. Airport Drive,
Tucson International Airport, Tucson, AZ 85706-6985 or fax
(602) 573-0852.
Videotapes of Our Work
(Available from Bountiful Gardens)
Two award-winning PBS specials documenting our work
have been televised nationally.
Gardensong (1983) is a beautiful film about Alan Chadwick’s
work, our own work, and that of others.
Circle of Plenty (1987) is about our Willits garden and the
Menos y Mejores project in northern Mexico. Circle of Plenty
addresses some serious problems in world agriculture and
shows that the Biointensive method is a viable solution even
under Third World conditions with poor soil.
A Journey in Kenya—Biointensive Farmers (1993). Sandra
Mardigian and Doug Burck revisit graduates from Manor
House Agricultural Centre whom they sponsored, and document
the amazing, positive changes that have resulted from
Biointensive gardens—both for individuals and for whole
villages! Wonderful, hope-filled scenes of African gardens
and gardeners. About 20 minutes.
El Huerto Ecologico (1992). This video is used to introduce
Biointensive practices in Mexico.
The Living Land (1999). This PBS-TV special is available from
the Foundation for Global Community, 222 High Street, Palo
Alto, CA, 94301, phone (800) 707-7932. The program focuses
on the bases of our lives: the soil, farming, and food. Beautifully
done. Interviews with John Jeavons of Ecology Action,
Wes Jackson of the Land Institute, Alice Waters of Chez
Panisse, and Mas Masumoto, author of Epitaph for a Peach
and Harvest Son are woven into a beautiful fabric.