Thursday, April 8, 2010

Follow up to Grain Food Workshop

Thanks to everyone who attended our first Earth Month event, "Grain Food: Building a Regional Staple Food System," and a special Thank You to our guest, Michelle Ajamian, for leading a really interesting discussion about growing staple food crops such as amaranth & black beans locally.

Here are some links we found later about work of the Appalachian Staple Foods Collaborative:
Also, here is the website address for OEFFA (Ohio Ecological Food & Farm Association)
Photo by flora.cyclam on Flickr

Short Films on Food

As promised, here are links to the free online short films we showed on food  -- check out these sources for many more short films on environmental topics:

Media that Matters Film Festival
Good Food: A Collection of Short Films on Food & Sustainability
featuring
"The Meatrix"
Louis Fox / Sustainable Table, Free Range Graphics
Prelinger Archives -- historic ephemeral films produced from 1927-1987. Many topics are represented, but here are some on food:
Miracles in Agriculture (12:49) / Seed for Tomorrow (19:55) / It Takes Everybody to Build This Land (20:00)
Live Earth Film Festival
Award-winning filmmakers were commissioned to create awareness-raising short films.



Monday, April 5, 2010

First Alden Library Earth Month Event This Week!

Please join us on Wednesday to hear about a very interesting local sustainable food project -- growing grains in Athens -- yes, right here in Ohio!  We will also be showing some classic food film shorts to get the discussion going.  Open to all Athens students, faculty, staff & community.  Refreshments provided.

Building a Regional Staple Food System
Michelle Ajamian & Brandon Jaeger
Appalachian Staple Foods Collaborative 
Wed Apr 7
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Alden Library Rm 319 (Friends Rm)

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