Garden Insects (DVD)
Check out this latest addition to our Home-Grounds and Community Horticulture Resource Library. This is a lending library maintained in the Department of Horticulture and CCE educators are encouraged to borrow items (see more details below).
Borrow this DVD to add an educational component to your Master Gardener Volunteer meeting or if you are working with youth or public adult audiences it could be a nice addition to a garden lesson. It might even inspire your audience to look closer at their gardens and be inspired to do their own filming.
Garden Insects (DVD) a 50 minute long documentary film by Chris Korrow that features colorful close-up photography, an original music score, combined with facts about insect habitats and life cycles offers viewers a documentary film that is aesthetically pleasing, awe-inspiring and informative. Viewers learn about the multitude of insects in their own gardens — which ones are beneficial and which ones are destroying their vegetables, who eats who and why. Organized by insect families: ants; bees and wasps; etc. The unique aspect of this project is that Korrow is both an biodynamic farmer and a professional filmmaker, his insights coming from hard-won hours in the fields and a love for the garden ecosystem. Visually stimulating, the film awakens the viewer to the fact that we are not as separate from nature as we might think. If we have a garden in our backyard, chances are there is more happening out there than we could have imagined!
Filmmaker’s statement:
“Having taught gardening classes for over 14 years, I was inspired to make this film when I realized how little the majority of gardeners know about the insect ecosystem that exists in their gardens, and also that they do have a strong desire and interest to understand it better. From the point of view of an environmental activist this film is important as it gives the viewer an opportunity to connect with the natural world through something that is close and personal — their own gardens — rather than something far away and abstract like the destruction of the rain forests of the world. Garden Insects was filmed almost entirely in my own backyard.”
Home-Grounds and Community Horticulture Resource Library houses hundreds of titles. The bulk of the collection is slide presentations with an increasing number of powerpoints on CDs. There are also posters for display. CCE staff can contact Max Welcome in the Dept of Horticulture for a complete list of resources available or to borrowing any of the resources.
Lori Bushway | Campus News, Hard copy pubs., Program Work Team, Resources