12 best backyard dvds

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Big Backyard Adventures is 3-DVD Collection of the Backyardigan biggest adventures! DVDs included in this collection are Super Secret Super Spy, Tale of the Mighty Knights, and Robot Repairmen.

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Hummingbirds of the Backyard Come along with Sheri Williamson, author of the Peterson Guide to Hummingbirds, on this fascinating video journey into the secret lives of North America's favorite birds. She'll introduce you to 14 species that nest in the U.S. and Canada, and she'll show you how to attract them to your yard. Sheri offers her expert insights into their migration patterns, their intimate relationships with the flowers they pollinate, their unique flight patterns, and their brilliant iridescent colors. She'll also offer clear instructions on the care and placement of feeders and the planting of a hummingbird-friendly garden, plus much more. All designed to increase your knowledge and enjoyment of these remarkable creatures. At the end of the narrated portion of the video, the stunning images are repeated without narration, offering the viewer another way to enjoy this remarkable nature video. Birds of the Backyard Winter Into Spring: An uncommon video adventure with the common birds of the backyard - winter into spring. The video is your guide through the birds true-life dramas and shows you how to convert your backyard into a wild bird sanctuary. Winter into Spring without Narration: Here the beautiful images and natural sounds are repeated without narration, offering a whole new dimension in video enjoyment. Bonus: More Winter Birds Spring Into Summer: Come along, close up, and marvel at the drama and vibrant beauty of spring and summer song birds while learning the secrets of attracting birds to the yard in these two seasons. From the first days of spring to the lingering days of summer, thrill to intimate glimpses of cardinals, bluebirds, goldfinches, warblers, tanagers and hummingbirds. Spring Into Summer without Narration: The exquisite images and glorious sounds are repeated without narration, offering the viewer a revolutionary dimension in naure video entertainment and enjoyment. Bonus: More Spring and Summer Birds

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Hosted by birding experts and authors, George Harrison and Sheri Williamson.

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Over 300,000 copies of this video set are being used in more than 38 countries around the world. Covers everything you need to know including - water systems (and how to know when to water) - best gardening methods - easiest ways to keep small livestock with little work of feed - predator protection - how do do home butchering with honor and repsect - food forests and edible landscaping. The set also comes with many bonus reports on rainwater harvesting, tanning rabbit hides, free fertilizers, home meade food dehydrators, seeds saving, and much much. All the techniques show you how to grow food in a grid down, or 'real sustainability' environment.

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Product Review: Video: Backyard Food Production Systems For a Backyard or Small Farm, by Michael Z. Williamson By James Wesley, Rawles on October 29, 2010 2:44 PM Backyard Food Production Systems For a Backyard or Small Farm is a great video and useful resource. Not only is it based on a lot of research, but on more than a decade of home farming in central Texas, which is certainly one of the tougher environments in America to farm in. Very clearly narrated and demonstrated. It s a little handheld and shaky at the beginning, which emphasized the small scale involved, but professionally filmed and edited after the intro. This is a farm for a family of four, run very efficiently and productively. It starts with a chapter on the most important aspect: Water. Subjects include collection and distribution, with some welcome attention to cleaning often overlooked in other publications. Rainwater, gray water, well and commercial water sources are all covered, with extensive discussion of catchment and cleaning of rainwater. Ponds and catfish are mentioned, too. The chapter on gardening covers critical issues such as shade mapping, soil types, compost production, including safe composting of human waste. The narrative is quick and clear, and mentions lots of documents, helpfully provided on Disk 2. Rabbits. Raising and butchering rabbits I d recommend adding a gut hook and shears to the demonstrated method, but it s good to learn how using just a basic knife. This section is professional and clean, but the killing and butchering of a rabbit is probably not something to show children who are not familiar with the realities of meat. Also covered is how to use the rabbit waste for compost, and the rabbits are fed off shade trees and garden waste, for a very efficient cycle. The chapter on poultry is almost exclusively about chickens, kept free range for eggs. While chickens are certainly edible themselves, the eggs provide a much more efficient source of protein and are useful for cooking or trading. Here again, the chickens serve another purpose, eliminating ground insects and weeds and providing fertilizer. Dogs are useful, even essential to protecting a garden from the predations of wildlife. There s a good discussion of socializing and raising them to respect the human and keep paws off the other animals. Perennials include fruit trees. It s important to work with fruits that thrive in the area, not try to force commercial crops to fit. Geese make a good adjunct to an orchard, providing fertilizer and winter eggs. The chapter on Essentials covers calorie rich foods, such as grains and tubers, natural pesticides, first aid, contour mapping and covers how to check imports (hay and other composts) for toxicity. There are summaries at the end of each section. Each chapter has great tips on saving power and resources by nesting and stacking various plants, animals and tools to minimize waste, labor and costs. Overall, it s very clear. It seems a little chaotic in spots on a first viewing, but there s a lot of inter-related information here that has to be covered. It s worth watching several times and keeping as a reference. In all, it was very watchable, very lively, and what a good documentary and summary instructional video should be. The second disk has the extensive documentation, references and recipes. There are sections on composting, companion planting for nitrogen fixing, acorn flour, tanning hides, soil amendments, processing of various plants for seed oils, root cellar construction, a solar food dehydrator, and various fruits that are uncommon these days, such as persimmons and pawpaws. I highly recommend this as an overview, aid and morale booster for anyone planning to do home gardening or farming to improve their sustainment and off grid capabilities. - S --SurvivalBlog.com on October 29, 2010 2:44 PM



This DVD has everything you need to know, from water collection, gardens, home butchering and more. Get the most important education that you will ever need. Alex Jone, host of Alex Jones Radio and TV Show. InfoWars.com --infowars.com



Urban Survival DVD Review for Food Production Systems for a Backyard or Small Farm If you re thinking of growing your own food, you better know what you re doing. Farming is a skill set that s quickly being lost and forgotten with the new generation, and it s more important then ever to learn it now! Peak oil, resource depletion and the collapse of society is coming right around the bend and if you re not growing your own food now, you ll be multiplying the amount of suffering you and your family will experience when SHTF. Luckily it s not too late, and we have a great product for you, that will give you a great introduction to growing your own food. If you re interested in backyard food production, this is the DVD to get! whether you just want to have a few hens in your backyard or you re thinking of completely overhauling your property and implementing a completely self sustainable food production system, this DVD will have the information you need. I ve seen/read a lot of videos/books on homesteading and food production, and this DVD in my opinion is one of the clearest, no BS products out there. It definitely has our recommendation. Food Production Systems for a Backyard or Small Farm is approximately 2 hours long with 9 chapter and numerous sub sections ranging in subjects like: water collection and treatment, garden logistics, rabbit and poultry raising and butchering, dogs, food forests, and much more. It s bookmarked and broken up in such a way that it s extremely easy to go back and review any particular subject. A single DVD is obviously not enough to teach you everything you need to know about farming which is why the DVD also comes with a CD loaded with .PDF documents covering the more advanced aspects of farming. There are 64 .PDFs and they cover a wide a range of subjects. This may not be the best product for advanced homesteaders and food growers, but this DVD is definitely the perfect product to start your journey into the homesteading, farming, gardening lifestyle. Marjory and her family have been growing their own food for many years and her experience shows with this well thought out, and articulate DVD that she s produced. I ll admit, it s a bit pricy, but worth every penny. Just read the amazon reviews and you ll know why this product has one of our highest recommendations. --Urban Survival Network.com

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Homegrown Food On Every Table is the vision of Marjory Wildcraft's organization. Marjory has been called the "Martha Stewart of Self-Reliance" as she teaches how to simply and easily grow your own food, heal yourself with your own medicine, make home made beauty products, and much more. Marjory is a regular guest on many national radio and television shows. Most recently, Marjory was featured as an expert in sustainable living by National Geographic. She is an author of several books, but is best known for her video series "Food Production Systems For A Backyard Or Small Farm" which show s you how to create an organic food producing paradise in your backyard. "Food Production Systems" is widely used by homesteaders, survivalists, universities, and missionary organizations around the world. Marjory has an online resource center for backyard food production where you can find inspiration, humor, and practical steps for getting homegrown food on your dinner table.

About the Director

Marjory Wildcraft, is a nationally recognized expert in organic backyard food production. She is the creator of a widely acclaimed video tutorial titled Food Production Systems for a Backyard or Small Farm. Marjory teaches people with no gardening or agricultural experience, how to successfully grow healthy, vibrant, life-giving nutritious food. Her video is endorsed and carried by such notables as The Organic Consumers Association, The Permaculture Activist, Acre s USA, Bountiful Gardens, SurvivalBlog.com, Alex Jones, and The Weston-Price Nutrition Foundation. She has been featured as a guest on a diversity of national radio shows such as "Coast to Coast AM" and The Power Hour with Joyce Riley.

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A fascinating creation journey for the entire family!

It is another backyard excursion! Join siblings Taylor, Samuel and Grace, along with special guest Professor Solomon on a remarkable adventure of discovery, exploring the life and journey of God s amazing Monarch butterfly.

Enjoy vivid, close-up images of the remarkable 30-day transformation from egg to butterfly from watching a tiny Monarch caterpillar eat its way out of its egg to the completion of metamorphosis. Along the journey, you'll enjoy meeting creation scientist Mr. Jules H. Poirier*, author of The Life & Adventures of Monica the Monarch and From Darkness to Light to Flight.

Sprinkled with colorful animation, this engaging presentation on the king of butterflies is a fascinating creation journey of discovery for the entire family!

Bonus Features The DVD includes more than 45 minutes of bonus features, including:

How to Raise Monarchs

How to Order Tags

Mr. Jules Poirier's Testimony

Behind the Scenes

"About the Bottom Shelf"

Professor Solomon's Quiz

Your Backyard Trailer

This is My Father's World

Bloopers

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Three young heroes fight their way from their backyard to the tops of the wrestling ranks.

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Pack some food and bring your backpack because Sid, Gerald, and Dad are gearing up for a big adventure! They're setting up tents for a campout in the backyard! Dad is eager to share his love of nature and demonstrates how to have a great time outside with the simplest of necessities. They look for animals, cook their own dinner, marvel at the stars in the sky, roast marshmallows, and sing songs around the campfire. Join the adventure and sing along!

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An astonishing fictional account of the unending series of murders in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico during 1996. Idealistic Juarez newcomer Officer Blanca (Ana de la Reguera, Nacho Libre) faces the local epidemic of homicides with a strong commitment to bring justice into the small town. Instead she finds a shockingly indifferent government, overrun by fatalism and apathy. Backyard is an uncompromising look into the pitfalls of a resigned society trying to survive without a moral compass. Also starring Jimmy Smits (Outlaw, The Jane Austen Book Club, Star Wars: Episode II and III).

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Part 1: An uncommon video adventure with the common birds of the backyard - winter into spring. Geroge Harrison guides you through the birds true-life dramas and shows you how to convert your backyard into a wild bird sanctuary. Part 2: Here the beautiful images and natural sounds are repeated without narration, offering a whole new dimension in video enjoyment. Spring Into Winter

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My son went through a big bird craze between ages 2 and 3 and this was his favorite video, oddly enough! He still enjoys it, and we both retain a lot of information from it after watching/overhearing it the usual kazillion times. It's a soothing video, not dry, with a natural flow and narrative. Lots of beautiful footage of common backyard birds of the northern USA, such as chickadees, robins, nuthatches, purple finches, cardinals, mourning doves, woodpeckers. It's also very well designed to allow you to absorb information about each bird through live footage, a friendly factual commentary, and the bird's calls. The first half of this video includes a voiceover narration that gives a lot of good information on the specific birds, their habits, interesting facts about them, and the best ways of feeding and watering them in your back yard. The second half shows the same footage of birds with only the sounds of the birds themselves. --amazon.com

About the Actor

Peterson's first work on birds was an article Notes from field and study; in the magazine Bird-lore, where he recorded anecdotally two sight records from 1925, a Carolina Wren and a Titmouse. In 1934 he published his seminal Guide to the Birds, the first modern field guide, which sold out its first printing of 2 000 copies in one week, and subsequently went through 6 editions. He co-wrote Wild America with James Fisher, and edited or wrote many of the volumes in the Peterson Field Guide series, on topics ranging from rocks and minerals to beetles to reptiles. He developed the Peterson Identification System, and is known for the clarity of both his illustrations of field guides and his delineation of relevant field marks. Paul R. Ehrlich, in The Birder's Handbook: A Field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds (Fireside. 1988), said this about Peterson: In this century, no one has done more to promote an interest in living creatures than Roger Tory Peterson, the inventor of the modern field guide. Peterson received every major American award for natural science, ornithology, and conservation, as well as numerous honorary medals, diplomas, and citations from America and elsewhere, including the Linnaean Society of New York's Eisenmann Medal, the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Order of the Golden Ark of the Netherlands. In 1977, he was honored by selection by the two Swedish District lodges of the Vasa Order of America to be Swedish-American of the Year. He received nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize and honorary doctorates from numerous American universities. He died in 1996 at his home in Old Lyme, Connecticut. Roger Tory Peterson was cremated following his death. A portion of his ashes were spread on and round Great Island near Old Lyme, Connecticut. Another portion of his ashes are buried in the Old Lyme Cemetery also known as the Duck River Cemetery. A third portion of his ashes is inured in the Pine Hill Cemetery, Falconer, New York in the family plot where his father and paternal grandparents are buried. The Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History in Jamestown, New York is named in his honor. In 2000, the American Birding Association established the Roger Tory Peterson Award for Promoting the Cause of Birding.[8] A critically lauded biography, Birdwatcher: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson (The Lyons Press. 2008) by Elizabeth Rosenthal, was published for the centennial anniversary of Peterson's birth.

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George has a degree in journalism from Penn State University. I knew the subject of nature from living it, George said. I just needed the formal training in writing. Since then, George has written 13 books, produced six specials about backyard birds for PBS television and has written for six different nature magazines. George enjoys life more by doing less even though he's still pretty busy! Most of his time is taken up by writing, and his backyard wildlife habitat provides plenty of inspiration. Helping people discover the enjoyment of bird-watching is what George loves most about his job. He encourages newly interested bird-watchers to provide food, cover and water as a sure-fire way to attract birds to any backyard.

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Superb Close Up & Slow Motion Video of Hummingbirds in Action Come along with Sheri Williamson, author of the Peterson Guide to Hummingbirds, on this fascinating video journey into the secret lives of North America s favorite birds. She ll introduce you to 14 species that nest in the U.S. and Canada, and she ll show you how to attract them to your yard. Sheri offers her expert insights into their migration patterns, their intimate relationships with the flowers they pollinate, their unique flight patterns, and their brilliant iridescent colors. She ll also offer clear instructions on the care and placement of feeders and the planting of a hummingbird-friendly garden, plus much more. All designed to increase your knowledge and enjoyment of these remarkable creatures. At the end of the narrated portion of the video, the stunning images are repeated without narration, offering the viewer another way to enjoy this remarkable nature video. Featuring Calliope Hummingbird Allen's Hummingbird Broad-billed Hummingbird Violet-crowned Hummingbird Broad-tailed Hummingbird Magnificent Hummingbird White-eared Hummingbird Costa's Hummingbird Black-chinned Hummingbird Ruby-Throated Hummingbird Rufous Hummingbird Anna's Hummingbird Lucifer Hummingbird Blue-throated Hummingbird

About the Actor

Sheri Williamson is an ornithologist, naturalist, and hummingbird researcher. She is co-founder of the Southeastern Arizona Bird Observatory and author of several magazine articles and a forthcoming field guide to hummingbirds in the Peterson Field Guide Series.

About the Director

Biologist, naturalist, writer, photographer, lecturer, illustrator, graphic artist Co-founder of the Southeastern Arizona Bird Observatory One of fewer than 150 hummingbird banders in the U.S.; handled over 4000 individual hummingbirds of 16 species since 1990. Field experience includes Arizona, Texas (north-central, Gulf Coast, lower Rio Grande Valley, Big Bend), Belize & Tikal (10 trips, 6 as tour leader), Mexico (eastern and western, including 6 trips to Copper Canyon as tour leader), Colorado, California, Alaska (Pribilof Islands, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge), Costa Rica Co-manager of The Nature Conservancy's Ramsey Canyon Preserve, 1988-1996 Docent and wildlife rehabilitator, Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge, 1977-1988 Zookeeper/aquarist, Fort Worth Zoo, 1976-1979 Past officer of Huachuca Audubon Society, Fort Worth Audubon Society, North Texas Herpetological Society B.S. in Biology from University of Texas at Arlington, 1986

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From writer-director Eric Mendelsohn, the only two-time winner of the directing prize at Sundance, the story of three residents of the same town over the course of one seemingly perfect Autumn day.