Trailer
Our brand-new trailer for
Edible City!
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Michael Dimock
Michael Dimock is the president of
Roots of Change, a California based organization focused on creating a sustainable food system by the year 2030.
In our interview, filmed in October of 2008, Michael defines the concept of a food shed, the importance of changing language in regards to food policy, the farm bill, how to get politicians to care about food policy, his own personal history with the food system, what a sustainable food system in the San Francisco Bay Area may look like and more.
Eric Holt Giménez
Part 1 of a 4-part interview with
Food First Executive Director Eric Holt-Giménez, in which he discusses his life, his work, the history of industrialized agriculture, the injustices of big agribusiness and the current state of the food system.
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Manuel Arrias
A short piece profiling Manuel Arrias, Oakland retiree. Manuel talks about his history with farming, and about the enormous impact that growing food can have on mental health.
Open Restaurant
Open Restaurant is a dining experience/art installation. A temporary dining event staged for one night only. The theme for this evening was Urban Farming.
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Oakland Roots
The crew of
Edible City helps sheet mulch a new urban garden in Oakland, California.
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MyFarm
MyFarm is a decentralized urban farm, which grows vegetables in backyard gardens throughout the city of San Francisco.
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A Sidewalk Garden
Permaculture landscaper Carl Grether and friends throw a work party, complete with banjos, beers, and bongos, to break up a concrete sidewalk and replace it with an edible garden.
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Community Planting Day
Slow Food Nation and SF Victory Gardens organize hundreds of volunteers to plant a garden in front of the San Francisco Civic Center. Speakers at the inaugural event include Willow Rosenthal of City Slicker Farms, Alice Waters, and Mayor Gavin Newsom.
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