Sunday Night Movie - Blooming Tea

Tonight's movie is short but really cool. This teabag, once submerged, slowly opens into a beautiful underwater flower. How did they figure this out?!

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Red Rose Blooming

In the spirit of Valentine's Day, enjoy this time-lapse movie of 3 red roses blooming.

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Sunday Night Movie - Moonflower blooming

Since it's a full moon tomorrow, tonight's movie shows a beautiful moonflower blooming. The caption at the beginning says it is in real time. The movie is only 1 min, 32 seconds so next summer I expect to watch a few of these with my own eyes!

The moonflower is similar to the morning glory in that its blossoms only last one day.

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Sunday Night Movie - The Garden of Eatin'

There is a new campaign to encourage President Obama to lead by example and plant a vegetable garden on the White House lawn. According to the people behind www.eattheview.com,

"This animated video is part of the "Eat the View" campaign to turn part of the White House's 18 acre lawn back into an edible landscape. The video tells the story of the "America's Garden" from 1800 when President John Adams planted the first "first vegetables" to feed his own family to the present day."

Here's their promotional video. It's well done and short (3 min, 20 sec)

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Sunday Night Movie - Time Lapse Amaryllis Blooming

Enough depressing stuff about genetic engineering, global warming, diseases, etc. Here's a really cool time lapse clip of an amaryllis blooming.

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Sunday Night Movie - The Bio Da Versity Code

Our last movie in the winter cartoon series, The Bio Da Versity Code is a 5 1/2 minute short about species extinction and the web of life. The snow is beautiful but I can't wait to get back into the web of life in my backyard!

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Sunday Night Movie - Grocery Store Wars

Tonight's movie is another cartoon about the origins of our food. Sure makes me want to double the size of my garden this spring!

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Sunday Night Movie - The Official Meatrix I, II, II 1/2

Here are three funny cartoons that tell the not-so-funny story of factory farm development and the origins of our meat and animal products. These short, animated clips also give alternatives and a message of hope for better farming in the future. It all depends on our (consumers) choices.

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Sunday Night Movie - Hidden Dangers in Kids' Meals part 3

This is the 3rd part of Jeffrey M. Smith's latest movie. It discusses the possible dangers of genetically modified food in animal and human diets.

Jeffrey M. Smith is the Executive Director of the Institute for Responsible Technology. He has written several books about genetic engineering including Seeds Of Deception.

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Sunday Night Movie - Hidden Dangers in Kids' Meals

Here's an excerpt from Jeffrey M. Smith's latest movie. It discusses the possible dangers of genetically modified food in animal and human diets.

Jeffrey M. Smith is the Executive Director of the Institute for Responsible Technology. He has written several books about genetic engineering including Seeds Of Deception.

Hidden Dangers in Kids' Meals Part 1

Hidden Dangers in Kids' Meals Part 2

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Sunday Night Movie - Fergus Drennon, Road Kill Chef, parts 5 & 6

Tonight's feature will be the last two segments of a documentary on Fergus Drennon, the famous wild food forager.

Part 5:

Part 6:

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Sunday Night Movie - Fergus Drennon, Road Kill Chef, parts 3 & 4

Fergus Drennon is a wild food hunter. Here is part 3 of a documentary about some of his finds.

And here is part 4:

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Sunday Night Movie - Backyard Sustainability & Growing Food Around the House

Tonight we have two videos on surviving in your backyard. The first one is about a couple who is experimenting in backyard sustainability by growing as much food as they can in a suburban backyard. If time is short, skip the first 11 minutes of yapping on the front porch and get right into the garden tour.

The second video shows an example of how to grow a lot of food in your own backyard. There are only 2 minutes of yapping at the beginning of this one so just turn it up while you go to the fridge for a beverage.

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Sunday Night Movie - Collecting Seeds

Here's a 3-minute video from the Virginia Farm Bureau on collecting seeds: