Choose from these films and add a discussion about how to access affordable, healthy food in Toronto.
The True Cost of Food
In this humorous animated short, The Sierra Club wakes us up with the reality of what our food is really costing us. Learn how we can make decisions in the grocery store that help lower not just the price of the food we are buying, but the cost to our environment, our animals and our farmers as well.
15 minutes in English.
Written by Jonah Sachs and Tate Hausman, directed by Tate Hausman.
People's Grocery 9 minutes Directed by Emmanuel Vaughn-Lee
In West Oakland, California, where liquor stores have replaced markets, People’s Grocery is creating a healthy alternative, offering access to organic produce. Through urban gardens and local farms, People's Grocery supports a culture based on connection to the land, sustainable agricultural practices, and regenerating community.
Ladies of the Land 30 minutes Directed by Megan Thompson
Ladies of the Land profiles four women who once never thought they'd be in charge of a farm, but today raise cattle, sell goat cheese and harvest organic vegetables. With commentary from Carolyn Sachs, PhD, one of the nation's leading experts on women in agriculture, and Amy Trauger, PhD, founder of the Pennsylvania Women's Agricultural Network, Ladies of the Land takes us on a journey through America's new heartland.
Ladies of the Land is the recipient of a 2007 Student Academy Award, a 2007 Gracie Allen Award, and financial support from the New York chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
How To Save the World: One Man, One Cow, One Planet.
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Can one man and one cow save the earth? Is it possible that instead of developing higher tech solutions to our farming problems, that we might see better results through an arcane method called biodynamic farming that uses cow dung buried in a horn for 6 months and our hands to spray our fields in a spiral motion? Not only is it possible, it is happening, and Peter Proctor is leading the way to a world-wide revolution in how we grow our food.
56 minutes in English.
Produced and directed by Tom and Barbara Burstyn.
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