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Almanac Beer: Farm to Barrel

November 30, 2011 @ 9:16 pm

I don’t drink a whole lot of beer, but I’m always interested in hearing about how people are brewing their own beer. For example, these two guys who founded Almanac Beer Company are using San Francisco’s plentiful crops to help … Continue reading →

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Chicken farm casualties

April 10, 2011 @ 4:17 pm

Photo: Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images Check out this sad photo of some dead chickens due to mortar shells being fired into this chicken farm in Israel.

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Making maple syrup in Wisconsin

February 24, 2011 @ 12:57 am

This video above from the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board shows the process of extracting delicious Wisconsin sap to make maple syrup. Kat Becker and Tony Shultz own a sap-farm and rely heavily on perfect weather conditions in Wisconsin to collect … Continue reading →

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First episode of Portlandia now available for viewing

January 15, 2011 @ 7:33 pm

Premiering January 21, 2011 on IFC is the new odd-comedy about Portland, Oregon called Portlandia. In the show, Fred Armisen plays several different characters that are exaggerations (maybe) of Portland stereotypes. The first episode, Farm, is being shown on IFC’s … Continue reading →

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Video of a cherry picking machine

January 6, 2011 @ 12:24 am

THIS. IS. AWESOME. Watch this farm machine shake this cherry tree and automatically send those cherries to the wash! [via]

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Minka: A documentary about a farm house in Japan

November 15, 2010 @ 12:13 am

“Minka” trailer from Birdling Films on Vimeo. Former AP journalist John Roderick (now deceased) and his adopted son Yoshihiro Takishita rehabilitated a farm house in the country-side of Japan in 1967 and built a beautiful and peaceful living space out … Continue reading →

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