Some misc. thoughts
Was looking at Bon Appetit's website and found a blog entry from one of their interns, a girl about my age. This sentance caught my eye:
My hope is that because of the work of fellow student sustainable foodies, the next generation will be saying “you really ate that?!,” with the same tone of disbelief I used when I discovered that my mother used a sun reflector and baby oil to get a tan when she was my age.
Student sustainable foodies...*wipes tear*...that's me!
Also from their site:
I want this movie so bad. "Polycultures: Food Where We Live," about urban farming in Cleveland. The DVD is coming out soon. I'm going to see if I can't get KSL to get a copy of it.
Comments
Posted by: Trevor Allen
Posted on: July 12, 2009 09:45 PM
If I also submit a request that KSL purchase it, will it be more convincing? Because I really do wanna see it. Let me know how you went about requesting they purchase it.
Posted by: Mariya
Posted on: July 12, 2009 11:05 PM
I think it should be more convincing, but I don't know how receptive they are to purchase requests in general. But if you're willing to put one in, please do! I went here:
http://library.case.edu/forms/purchase.aspx
Put in this info:
Title: PolyCultures: Food Where We Live
Place of Publication: Cleveland
Publisher: Less Productions
Identifying number: I can't find it.
Additional Information: Copyright/release date 2009
And this in additional comments:
Here is the website where this DVD can be ordered:
http://www.lessproductions.com/
(choose "buy home use" or "buy public use" at the top)
From the link:
PolyCultures: Food Where We Live is a feature-length documentary movie that portrays the diverse communities around Northeast Ohio coming together to grow a more sustainable and local food system. PolyCultures is firmly rooted in the idea that local/sustainable food is good for the health of individuals, communities, local economies, and the environment. To balance the advocacy perspective, it features many national and international experts who place area food production in the bigger picture of sustainability. The term "polyculture" refers to the ecologically-minded technique of growing a diversity of crops/animals on one farm, but it also represents the documentary's participants coming from very different backgrounds to arrive at similar conclusions and take coordinated action. The aesthetic is a mix of "agrarian" camera techniques portraying postindustrial Cleveland and surrounding farmland, symbolizing the ground-level nature of this movement. PolyCultures was produced b!
y LESS Productions in conjunction with the New Agrarian Center from 2006 to 2009. The movie officially premiered at the 2009 Cleveland International Film Festival, where the number of theaters showing it was doubled due to audience demand!
Here are more info and clips:
http://web.me.com/blueheron55/NAC_Site/PolyCultures.html