Revisiting Forgotten Foods: A Case Study from California
This photo essay looks at how a forgotten local food—the berry-producing Manzanita shrub of northern California—has begun to make its way back into the diets of the local community.
This photo essay looks at how a forgotten local food—the berry-producing Manzanita shrub of northern California—has begun to make its way back into the diets of the local community.
Looks at the relations between “man and the land” through the lens of part-time farming in Italy and China.
Why do people want to eat locally? This essay considers the drive for local food as a consumer movement in the United States, suggesting that we can look at the past to learn valuable lessons for challenges we face today.
This film questions the sustainability of the four billion dollar global sushi industry, which has put the Blue Fin Tuna at risk of extinction.
This film follows an Indian farmer whose situation becomes a microcosm of the conflict between Monsanto and rural people living in poverty in India.
In European imagination the North Atlantic has been seen as a region on the far borders of civilization and marked by the contrasts of scarcity and plenty.
This film examines a project in Baltimore’s public schools to transform the school food programs, making them more nutritious and connected to local food systems.
This film examines the development of a new, more localized food system in Venezuela.
This short film follows a spoiled tomato as it moves through the Brazilian food chain.
This film follows the founder of a grassroots chocolate cooperative in Grenada. It reveals the benefits of a cooperative model in an industry marred by corporate greed, trafficking, and slavery.