https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBPLrr9Hph0

The Food Forest Farmers

Syntropic farming is a new and ancient regenerative agriculture practice that can be implemented in any region, in any climate, in limitless ways – even in your own back yard. For over a decade the Lotz-Keegan family have been implementing permaculture practices to regenerate a degraded hillside into an abundant food forest of native and exotic trees that feed their family, their community, the wildlife, the soil, and their souls.

Combining the practices of syntropic agroforestry with the principles of permaculture and their own deeply thoughtful approach to land regeneration, food growing, and lifestyle, this family is partnering with nature to create a humming diversity on the land and a positive story about the role of humans in an eco-system.

PermaDynamics https://www.permadynamics.net/

#food #food-growing #food-forest #syntropic #agroforestry #syntropic-agroforestry #food-forests #regenerative-agriculture #permaculture #regeneration #food-growers #KlausLotz #PermaDynamics #HappenFilms

How Ancient Forest Gardens Are Keeping Hunger At Bay

https://newint.org/immersive/2021/01/06/sheltering-fjf-forest

Agroforesty has been passed down like this from generation to generation in Gedeo since Neolithic times, making it one of the oldest farming systems in the world. The system endures in an area with the highest rural population density in Ethiopia (1,300 people per kilometre squared), without degrading the land, while sustaining great diversity. A study from Gedeo’s Kochore district found 165 plant species within and around home gardens.

#food #food-growing #food-growers #forest-gardens #agroforestry #agroforesty #Gedeo #Ethiopia #newinternationalist

How ancient forest gardens keep hunger at bay

Tesfa-Alem Tekle travels to meet the Ethiopian farmers whose unique agroforestry system has kept hunger at bay for millennia.

COVID-19 Sparks a Rebirth of the Local Farm Movement

https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2020/05/21/coronavirus-food-local-farm-movement/

#food #food-growing #food-growers #food-gardening #food-communities #community-supported-agriculture #local #organic #farm #movement #yesmagazine

COVID-19 Sparks a Rebirth of the Local Farm Movement

Could this be the beginning of a new food economy?

Dr. Ann Lopez On Farmworker Rights And Immigration

https://ksqd.org/dr-ann-lopez-on-farmworker-rights-and-immigration/

In this interview, Dr. Ann Lopez of the Center for Farmworker Families discusses a proposed bill that would grant some rights to undocumented farmworkers while leaving them open to deportation if they cannot comply with some very stringent conditions. Dr. Lopez says this will make the poverty and fear among this vulnerable population worse.

#food #food-growing #food-growers #farmworker #rights #foodbank #undergroundfoodbank #AnnLopez #CenterForFarmworkerFamilies

Dr. Ann Lopez on Farmworker Rights and Immigration

In this interview, Dr. Ann Lopez of the Center for Farmworker Families discusses a proposed bill that would grant some rights to undocumented farmworkers while leaving them open to deportation if they cannot comply with some very stringent...

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/sustenance

Sustenance

Sustenance is a feature-length documentary about food’s journey around the world, exploring controversies revolving around food and its interconnectedness with justice, climate change, and sustainability.

Breaking bread during a reunion, a group of friends become curious about the sustainability of their eating regiments. They instigate a challenge and send the filmmaker on a quest to investigate the credibility and ethicality of their eating ideologies. The friends come from different backgrounds and live in Toronto, Canada; a multicultural megalopolis. What follows takes the filmmaker on a global odyssey, far beyond the borders of Canada. As she digs deeper she realizes the inconvenient truths not only about the environmental catastrophes caused by our dependence on mainstream food production methods, but also by the cataclysmic social justice impact of our eating habits in the global south.

During her quest for Sustenance the filmmaker comes vis-à-vis the inevitability of our reliance on animal-source foods if we want to tackle the sustainability problem and live harmoniously with the other sojourners of our planet. She meets some of the most renowned contemporary food activists that elucidate this critical concept and provide their solutions; figures such as Lierre Keith, Allan Savory, Joel Salatin, Nora Gedgaudas, and Derrick Jensen.

The documentary unfolds many popular myths on topics such as plant-based diets, healthy and nutritional foods, ethical eating, food politics, industrial agriculture, and how to attain a sustainable lifestyle. Sustenance focuses on an outspoken socio-political approach to discovering where our food really comes from and how it genuinely affects the health of other people, other species, and ultimately our planet. While the documentary’s content focuses on an informative yet shocking look at the history of food politics, the meditative cinematic journey around the world allows spectators to reconnect with nature and Earth’s sustenance.

#Sustenance #documentary #film #nature #food #food-growing #food-growers #organic #organics #sustainableliving #sustainablelife #regenerativeagriculture #regenerativefarming #holistic-management #permaculture #sustainability #resilience #regeneration #waterislife #naturelover #interconnectedness #LierreKeith #JoelSalatin #NoraGedgaudas #AllanSavory #DerrickJensen #YasiGerami #SustenanceDocumentary #BluearthFilms #CounterMedia #docu-films