Category | Books & Film

A Great Read I don't think I have ever read anything else that I felt so "empathized with." That is to say, it was delightful to read about a couple starting a farm and struggling through the seasons that came. We laughed, we cried, we nodded our  heads in understanding, we shook our heads in awe and disbelief. Mark and Kristin farm in the North Country of Northern New York . Their farm provides an annual FULL DIET (!) CSA sold in individual shares. Full Diet means, if you join their CSA you don't have to go to the grocery unless  you want lemons, or olive oil. I think they...

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  " Local food is a handshake deal in a community gathering place. It involves farmers with first names, who show up week after week. It means an open-door policy on the fields, where neighborhood buyers are welcome to come  have a look, and pick their food from the vine. Local is farmers growing trust." from Animal,Vegetable,Miracle p. 123 Chris is going to try this recipe he saw in Martha Stewart Living (magazine) tomorrow. I'll let you know how we like it... CREAMY CAULIFLOWER SOUP WITH GREENS 1 tbs olive oil 1 cup chopped onion 4 cloves garlic Sea salt 1 head...

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    Aahhh, recipes. Concoctions of deliciousness from my table to yours...Hmmm, if only it were that easy. I am not sure that I am really a good recipe conveyor, but I do love good food, and when my kids are playing happily elsewhere, I like to cook it too! I have begun reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver, and as someone whose living comes from the land so to speak I appreciate her words very much. It is entertaining as well as informational.  If you don't agree with all of her opinions, you will still find more of experiential wisdom, farm-table...

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OVERVIEW Features families from across the nation, including the Michael and Susan Bradrick family in gorgeous Washington state, the Houk family in central Illinois — who've been farming for three generations — the Wilson family in Virginia, and many more! Hosted by Jim Bob Howard and beautifully filmed to capture the true essence of family life on a farm.  

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King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation.  In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s mostproductive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat—and...

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FRESH is more than a movie, it’s a gateway to action. Our aim is to help grow FRESH food, ideas, and become active participants in an exciting, vibrant, and fast-growing movement. When I write we, I don’t mean our small team (officially two of us, with lots of amazing helps from our interns and volunteers) but I mean YOU. All of you. FRESH is a grassroots efforts for a grassroots movement. It’s been tremendously exciting to see the movie catch on and spread like wild fire, being used all over the country as a platform to raise awareness and connecting people to the solutions available...

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In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad, but we also have new strains...

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Description: Saving the landscape, rebuilding entrepreneurial rural families, and protecting nutritious food are the themes of this timeless treatise-hence the word "testament." Delving into the soul of the Salatin family's nationally acclaimed Polyface Farm, author Joel Salatin offersFamily Friendly Farming as the key to dealing with resource issues, food policy, and social fabric. With humor and personal stories, he opens his family and farm convictions for all to see, share, and enjoy. Written from his unabashed "Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist" perspective, his ideas are guaranteed...

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Description: The companion volume to The New York Times bestseller The Omnivore's Dilemma Michael Pollan's lastbook , The Omnivore's Dilemma, launched a national conversation about the American way of eating; now In Defense of Food shows us how to change it, one meal at a time. Pollan proposes a new answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Pollan's bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we can start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives, enlarge our sense...

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Description: A national bestseller that has changed the way readers view the ecology of eating, this revolutionary book by award winner Michael Pollan asks the seemingly simple question: What should we have for dinner? Tracing from source to table each of the food chains that sustain us- whether industrial or organic, alternative or processed-he develops a portrait of the American way of eating. The result is a sweeping, surprising exploration of the hungers that have shaped our evolution, and of the profound implications our food choices have for the health of our species and the future...

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