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Sustainable ag solutions and trendsetters at the movies

by: nourishthespirit

Thu Jun 11, 2009 at 17:43:10 PM PDT

While I do plan on seeing Food, Inc. and End of the Line as soon as this coming Monday, I'm happy to take a momentary break from movies highlighting problems in our screwed up food system. Just watching Flow again recently left me very depressed.

So I'm excited about two upcoming films playing in the San Francisco bay area while I am visiting. These have a positive spin and cover the progress made in our sustainable food movement.

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Film Review: "Fresh"

by: JayinPortland

Wed May 27, 2009 at 13:46:18 PM PDT

"Fresh", the new film from Ana Sofia Joanes, is the latest in the recent line of great documentaries taking a look at our food system.  A lot of good stuff is packed into the film's 71 minutes, as we wander around fields from Virginia to Missouri, follow Will Allen as he leads a weekend workshop at Milwaukee's Growing Power, head out to see an artisanal honey producer in Kansas and meet just some of the other people along the way who help get local products onto the shelves of locally-owned stores and into people's kitchens.
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