Happy Spring Everyone,

Remember tomorrow March 29^th is the “Bringing Food Home” movie with a Farmer’s Market Soup from Julia’s Juices and baguettes from Breaking Bread Bakery. (Note: Farmer’s Market every Tuesday at the SLO Grange from 3 – 6pm.) Come support the local agriculture and food movement!

March 29 – Bringing Food Home film and discussion at 6pm at SLO Grange Hall - Farmer’s Market Soup is being served!!! $10 donation goes towards educational projects out at City Farm such as Our Global Family Garden and Pacific Beach High School. Flyer is attached.

BRINGING FOOD HOME is a film focusing on sustainable solutions for local food in Northern New Mexico. The documentary features several farms and gardens in the region practicing regenerative agriculture. Produced over the last two years, the documentary hopes to provoke constructive dialogue, inspiring Santa Fe and other cities to embrace urban agriculture as essential to a resilient community.

The flurry of reactions around the creation of Gaia Gardens, a one-acre farm within a residential zoning area in Santa Fe, provided the impetus for this documentary. The controversy has raised a larger question for the community: how will this high-desert city sustain itself in the future?

The film goes beyond the specifics of Gaia Gardens’ circumstances to explore the need for visionary policy change, as well as a radical shift in our relationship to food. Local farmers, land-use professionals, educators and policy makers present insights into fostering a sustainable future.

Panel discussion of our local food system here in San Luis Obispo to follow the film.

Movie trailer: https://vimeo.com/133098783

Facebook invite: https://www.facebook.com/events/686591681482527/

Teresa “Tree” Lees