Growing Local: the Naked Truth About Your Food. Film Series continues...

[Teresa]

Upcoming Film & Dinner Event

The Economics of Happiness
A film by Helena Norberg-Hodge, Steven Gorelick & John Page

Going local is a powerful strategy to repair our fractured world our ecosystems, our societies and our selves...

The Economics of Happiness Documentary Film is presented by the Growing Local Film Series will be shown at The Seaside Rep on Tuesday, April 26th at 6:30 pm.

Economic globalization has led to a massive expansion in the scale and power of big business and banking. It has also worsened nearly every problem we face: fundamentalism and ethnic conflict; climate chaos and species extinction; financial instability and unemployment. There are personal costs too. For the majority of people on the planet life is becoming increasingly stressful. We have less time for friends and family and we face mounting pressures at work.

The Economics of Happiness describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions. On the one hand, government and big business continue to promote globalization and the consolidation of corporate power. At the same time, all around the world people are resisting those policies, demanding a re-regulation of trade and finance and, far from the old institutions of power, they're starting to forge a very different future. Communities are coming together to re-build more human scale, ecological economies based on a new paradigm - an economics of localization.

We hear from a chorus of voices from six continents including Samdhong Rinpoche, the Prime Minister of Tibet's government in exile, Vandana Shiva, Bill McKibben, David Korten and Zac Goldsmith. They tell us that climate change and peak oil give us little choice: we need to localize, to bring the economy home. The good news is that as we move in this direction we will begin not only to heal the earth but also to restore our own sense of well-being. The Economics of Happiness restores our faith in humanity and challenges us to believe that it is possible to build a better world.

There will be a potluck at 5:30. This is a "Local Food" Potluck - so, please bring a food (with serving utensils) or beverage to share, featuring local/regional foods. (Please bring plates and cups for your own use, though we will have some on-hand.)

Eat "Local Food" Guidelines: The main portion of any dish should be from local or regional ingredients grown or harvested in Florida, Georgia, or Alabama. For example, zucchini bread should be made with zucchini that's as local as possible. But the flour, eggs, and other ingredients could be from anywhere, though if you can get them local-or organic-all the better. Any meat should be from organic or free-range animals. And yes, "harvested" can include wild plants, nuts, fish or game.

A film series sponsored by Raw & Juicy and Twin Oaks Farm, is presented the last Tuesday of the month at the Seaside Repertory Theatre in Seaside, FL.

Join us to learn what goes into the food we eat, how it is grown, how it reaches our table and how it affects our health and the environment.

 

[Teresa]

bump it up - see above for upcoming film info.

Here is more info on Potluck & food guidelines:

Hello EAT LOCAL friends...
...It's that time again!

"GROWING LOCAL - The Truth About YOUR Food" [SIZE=+0][SIZE=+0]
brought to you by Raw & Juicy and Twin Oaks Farm

The film this month will be "The Economics of Happiness"[/SIZE][/SIZE]This coming TUESDAY, April 26th

The Rep TheatreEAT LOCAL 5:30PM * MOVIE 6:30PMWe will hang out outside the Rep Theater and eat yummy food from 5:30-6:15ish, then together clean up and and get ready for the movie which will start promptly at 6:30pm. Remember, this is a POTLUCK - so, please bring a food (with serving utensils) or beverage to share featuring local/regional foods.

And it would be great if you could bring plates and cups for your own use, as well - though we will have some on-hand.

Here's a reminder on our food guidelines:
The main portion of any dish should be from local or regional ingredients grown or harvested in Florida, Georgia, or Alabama. For example, zucchini bread should be made with zucchini that's as local as possible. But the flour, eggs, and other ingredients could be from anywhere, though if you can get them local--or organic—all the better.

Any meat should be from organic or free-range animals. And yes, harvested can include wild plants, nuts, fish or game.

Here is a list of what's available in town:
For The Health of It in Blue Mountain Beach 267-0558

• zucchini
• yellow squash
• green beans
• green peppers
• alfalpha sprouts
• crunchy sprouts
• sunflower sprouts
• radish sprouts
• arugula
• green kale
• tangerines
• valencia oranges
• grape tomatoes
• cucumbers
• sugar snap peas
• corn
• leeks
• snow peas (Georgia)
• blueberries
• broccoli
• sweet onions
• shiitake mushrooms

 

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Thanks to the Growing Local Film Series, we have this wonderful opportunity to see these films that normally would not be available in our small community!

If you have not attended one of the pre-movie potluck dinners, you have missed some of the BEST food from some incredible local cooks- creative, healthy, and very delicious.

 

[Teresa]

Growing Local Film Series: A River of Waste. Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Tuesday, May 31, 2011
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A River of Waste: The Hazardous Truth About Factory Farms

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Eat Local 5:30pm​

Movie at 6:30pm​

Seaside REP Theatre Meeting Hall

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A heart-stopping documentary, A River Of Waste exposes a huge health and environmental scandal in our modern industrial system of meat and poultry production. The damage documented in today's factory farms far exceeds the damage that was depicted in Upton Sinclair's novel, The Jungle, a book written over 100 years ago. The European Union stands virtually alone in establishing strong health and environmental standards for the industry. In the U.S and elsewhere, the meat and poultry industry is dominated by dangerous uses of arsenic, antibiotics, growth hormones and by the dumping of massive amounts of sewage in fragile waterways and environments. The film documents the vast catastrophic impact on the environment and public health as well as focuses on individual lives damaged and destroyed.

As one observer noted, if terrorists did this, we would be up in arms, but when it is a fortune 500 company, it is just business as usual. In 1906, public outrage at the scandal exposed by Sinclair led to major reforms that cleaned up a corrupt and dangerous system. It is the hope of the filmmakers to mobilize a similar public outcry for reform.

A River of Waste

 

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A change in our schedule and location for this Tuesday

This Tuesday May 31, 2011
The movie will start at 7:30pm
Eat Local PotLuck at 6:30pm
and we will have it outside on The Holl Building lawn,
(around the corner from the REP and across the street from Amavida.)
Bring your chair or your blanket and join us ...

Tuesday movie is

Fresh, The Movie

If Food Inc. was your wake up call, Fresh, The Movie is your call to action. Fresh's strength is that it shows the incredible creativity of individuals who are devoting their lives to producing food differently.
Fresh is described as a film that celebrate the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are reinventing our food system. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vison of our food and our planets's future.
Fresh addresses an ethos that has been sweeping the nation and is a call to action America has been waiting for.
"We all know about the problems with the American food system, but what about the solutions? Fresh is bracing, even exhilarating look at the whole range of efforts underway to renovate the way we grow food and feed oursleves". - Michael Pollan