HOME-GROWN for the HOLIDAYS

What: Film Screening & Vegetarian Potluck

When: Sunday, December 28 (5:00 PM - 9:00 PM)

Where: 626 Cypress Ave, Pasadena CA  (cross street Orange Grove)

Cost: $10 donation (children under 12 are free)  Your donation helps pay for facility rental, screening licensing fees, sound system, and purchase of eco friendly. compostable dinnerware

Space is limited so please RSVP by calling 626.844.4586 or email info@pathtofreedom.com

Event Schedule

5:00 PM - event starts / Freedom Garden meetup

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM - potluck

7:00 PM - film screening ‘Broken Limbs’ (57 min)

8:00 PM - discussion on sustainable food & pop quiz (win prizes!)

Film

“Broken Limbs is a very accurate and moving description of what is happening to agriculture in America.” - Fred Kirschenmann, Director, Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Iowa State University, organic farmer

BROKEN LIMBS, an Emmy nominated documentary, explores these hopeful stirrings within agriculture, and outlines ways in which any individual can play a role in saving America’s farmers. Told from a hometown perspective, the film presents the stories of farmers attempting to create this new model for agriculture and emerging, more sustainable solutions to the crises of recent years – solutions applicable not just to apples and not just to farming, but to nearly any sector of the American economy troubled by the effects of consolidation and globalization.

Potluck

Bring something (preferably vegetarian) to contribute to the potluck - bring enough food for yourself/family and a bit to share. The primary focus of the ‘Locavore’ potluck is to promote eating whole foods, in their nature-made state, focusing on fresh food from local sources (or as local as possible)

If not FROM BACKYARD then locally produced.
If not LOCALLY PRODUCED, then Organic.
If not ORGANIC, then Family farm.
If not FAMILY FARM, then Local business.
If not a LOCAL BUSINESS, then Fair Trade.

Freedom Garden Meetup

Join local homegrown revolutionaries - swap crops, seeds, expertise and more.   

Growing for 21st century food security, FreedomGardens.org is a free interactive, online social community of gardening enthusiasts who are fed up with foreign oil, frequent food miles and high food prices.

To reserve space for this event email info@pathtofreedom.com or contact 626.844.4586

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Since the mid–1980s, members of the Dervaes family have steadily worked at transforming their ordinary city lot in Pasadena into a thriving organic micro farm that supplies them with food all year round. These eco-pioneers also run a successful home business providing their surplus produce to local restaurants. Through their adventures in growing and preserving their own food, installing a solar power system, home-brewing biodiesel for fuel, raising backyard farm animals, and learning back-to-basics skills, these modern-day pioneers have revived the old-fashioned spirit of self-reliance and resourcefulness. Since 2001, their site has inspired hundreds of thousands to take steps towards a sustainable future and has generated a 21st century urban homestead movement.