[Scpg] Eating Alaska (2008, 56 min.) is a serious and humorous film about connecting to where you live and eating locally.

[Dervaes]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Anaïs Dervaes


March 4, 2009
(626) 844-4586

info at pathtofreedom.com

 


Path to Freedom Presents a Screening of Eating Alaska


 

On March 29,  <http://pathtofreedom.com/> Path to Freedom – Urban Homestead
will host a vegetarian potluck followed by a screening of the documentary
Eating Alaska.


This event will be held 5:30-9:00 PM at 626 Cypress Ave. in Pasadena. Cost
is $10. Space is limited so reservations are necessary. To reserve, please
call (626) 844–4586 or register online at
www.pathtofreedom.com/form/eventregistration.htm.

 

About the Film:

 

Eating Alaska (2008, 56 min.) is a serious and humorous film about
connecting to where you live and eating locally. It is about trying to break
away from the industrial food system when that means not only buying fresh
seasonal food from local farmers, but taking part in a world of hunting and
gathering. Made by a former city dweller now living on an island in Alaska
and married to fisherman and deer hunter, it is a journey into regional food
traditions, our connection to the wilderness and to what we put into our
mouths.

 

The film portrays a wry quest for safe, healthy, meaningful, and sustainable
food that leads to climbing mountains with women hunters, scrutinizing food
labels with kids, talking moose meat with teens in a small village public
school, and exploring how others in the last frontier, Alaska Natives and
non-Natives, are eating.

 

Eating Alaska takes viewers from a lower 48 farmer’s market to the tundra to
look for caribou, from fishing for wild salmon to visiting a vegan cooking
class in Wasilla. This is a story about connecting to where we live, urban
or far from it, and coming to terms with what we eat and how we come by it.

 

About the Potluck:

 

For the vegetarian potluck, attendees are encouraged to contribute food
produced within a 100-mile radius of their homes (Santa Barbara to San
Diego).  If that’s not possible, then strive to purchase organic foods grown
within the closest distance.

 

About Path to Freedom:

 

Sponsoring organization Path to Freedom is a family-operated, viable urban
homestead project established by Jules Dervaes in 2001 to promote a simpler
and more fulfilling lifestyle and to sow a “homegrown revolution” against
the corporate powers that control the food supply. 

 

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. The family also runs
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 website, www.PathtoFreedom.com
<http://www.pathtofreedom.com/> , has inspired hundreds of thousands to take
steps towards a sustainable future and has generated a 21st century urban
homestead movement.

 

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