Category: Food Security
Feast On This Film Festival
The Feast on This Film Festival features movies that educate our community about the diverse issues affecting our national, regional and local food and agricultural systems. We choose films that will spark conversation and action around building stronger local, regional and sustainable food systems. All films are open to the public.
DATE:
November 9 – 15, 2015
HOSTED BY
Monadnock Farm & Community Coalition and Monadnock Food Co-op
FILM SCHEDULE:
5:30pm Monday, November 9, 2015 – Hosted by Prime Roast Coffee, Keene
3 Acres in Detroit
A willful urban farmer sets out to transform an abandoned house into a greenhouse
7pm, Tuesday, November 10, 2015 – Hosted by The Cornucopia Project, Peterborough
Lunch Love Community
Passion, creative energy and persistence come together when Berkeley advocates and educators tackle food reform and food justice in the schools and in the neighborhoods.
7pm, Wednesday, November 11, 2015 – Hosted by The Community Kitchen at Stonewall Farm, Keene
The Starfish Throwers
Worlds apart, a five-star chef, a twelve year-old girl, and a retired schoolteacher discover how their individual efforts to feed the poor ignite a movement in the fight against hunger.
7pm, Thursday, November 12, 2015 – Fair Trade Group, Keene State College, Mabel Brown Room
After I Pick The Fruit
Story of five-immigrant farmworker women who labor in NY, migrate seasonally to Florida, raise their families, and try to hide from the Bush-era immigration raids that were conducted in response to 9/11.
7pm, Friday, November 13, 2015 – Hosted by Community Garden Connections & The Orchard School at Antioch University New England
Inhabit
Inhabit is a feature length documentary introducing permaculture: a design method that offers an ecological lens for solving issues related to agriculture, economics, and governance.
7pm, Saturday, November 14, 2015 – Hosted by the Monadnock Conservancy at Hastings Memorial Hall, Walpole
Growing Local
This Maine Farmland Trust-produced documentary includes three, poignant vignettes which educate on the interconnected fates of New England’s small farms, consumers and the buy-local movement.
1pm, Sunday, November 15, 2015– Colonial Theater, Keene
In Defense of Food, NH Premiere
This two-hour documentary, based on the NYT best selling book by Michael Pollan, sheds new light on one of the most important conflicts of our time—the one that each and every one of us fights when we sit down to a meal.
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$30 Film Festival Button on sale at Toadstool Bookshops in Keene and Peterborough and the Monadnock Food Coop.
Suggested donation at each venue: $10.
All proceeds underwrite festival expenses.
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Celebrate Food Day!
On October 24th, Americans from all 50 states will celebrate the fifth annual Food Day at thousands of events, building a movement to change the American food system. Join the 2015 Food Day campaign!
Also, check out this year’s Food Day Barnraiser — an effort to double Food Day’s impact and reach 10 million new people.
Food Day Priorities
– Promote safer, healthier diets
– Support sustainable farms
– End hunger
– Reform factory farms
– Support fair working conditions for food and farm workers
Food Week: Monadnock Region Events
Tuesday, October 20, 4 – 6 pm: Keene Community Garden Connections Garden Party (at the Cheshire County Farm, Westmoreland)
Wednesday, October 21, 5 – 6:30 pm: Food Day Pitchfest (at the Hannah Grimes Center, Keene) Please register!
Friday, October 23, 3 – 6 pm: Monadnock Food Co-op Food Day Fair (at Monadnock Food Co-op, Keene)
Saturday, October 24, 5 – 8 pm: Monadnock Food Co-op Annual Meeting & Celebration (at Heberton Hall, Keene)
August is New Hampshire Eat Local Month
Originally posted in the Monadnock Shopper News
August is New Hampshire Eat Local Month — a time to celebrate local food and farms, and recognize how a stronger local food system builds healthier citizens, communities and local economies. Who is cultivating a stronger “Eat Local” movement in the Monadnock Region? Feast on these featured initiatives:
Start With the Land
Land is the foundation of our food system and Land For Good, based right here in Keene, specializes in connecting farmers with farmland. Seventy percent of our nation’s farmland is expected to change hands in the next two decades. Without a focused effort, much of that land will go out of farming, and with it, the hopes of a new generation of passionate and savvy farmers. Land For Good leads such an effort, involving everyone — farmers, families, landowners, community leaders, agencies, service providers, advocacy groups and local citizens —…
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