Sustainable Food Films

We love watching films about people creating vibrant, healthy food systems - whether that be through growing veggies in the city, community gardening, organic farming, soil restoration, running community food redistribution programs, fair trade, food co-ops or even ‘dumpster diving.’ There are such amazing things happening across the globe, and some very clever people catching it on film!

What are your favourite inspiring ‘sustainable food’ films? Ours would have to be:

• Establishing a Food Forest - The Permaculture Way Series
• The Power of Community
• Food Inc
• In Transition – From Oil Dependence to Local Resiliance
• The Future of Food
• Black and Gold – A Film about Coffee and Trade
• King Corn
• Our Seeds: Seeds Blong Yum

Thanks to Dave at Permaculture Power, we also recently discovered the fantastic site Ecoveristy, which has an amazing collection of on-line clips you can watch for free.

Films we have heard about that we would love to see include:

• Dirt! 
• HomeGrown - the 21st Century Family Farm
• Homegrown Revolution
• Rare Chicken Rescue

Comments

[Meryl]

Hey - if you ever want to do a screening We've got a projector and the space at Futureworld. Nothing flash but it also doesn't matter if it's only a few people for a casual kind of affair. Just a thought.

[Darren (Green Change)]

I enjoyed The Real Dirt On Farmer John. It was a very personal, painful at times, history of one man and one farm, and his road to success with organic farming using the CSA model.

[HappyEarth]

Fantastic to know Futureworld is an option for screenings Meryl - will keep that in mind!

And thanks for the reminder about the Real Dirt on Farmer John Darren - we have enjoyed watching it before, but it slipped our minds when creating this list! Quite a character isn't he - it was wonderful to see how well things have worked out in the end for him with the CSA schemes. It would be great to see CSAs take off in Oz...

[Nancy]

My favourite film at the moment is Farm for a Future - set in UK and presented by a young woman who grew up on a traditional family farm and sets out to discover how dependent farms are on oil after hearing about peak oil. Shocking when you see the extent of it! Most of this film though is about the alternatives she investigates - permaculture, forest gardens... some really inspirational stuff! I've posted this film up on my blog:
http://oakhousepermaculture.blogspot.com/2010/02/farm-for-future.html

...or you can search for it on youtube.