Edible City — Grow the Revolution

Edible City – Teaser Trailer

Edible City will be viewable in its entirety on ediblecity.net in early 2012.

Edible City – Part 1 – Introductions

Get to know some of the remarkable people growing a sustainable food system in the San Francisco Bay Area. ***PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A ROUGH CUT VERSION***

Edible City – Part 2 – Antonio and Michael

Part 2 takes a closer look at urban farming in an underserved neighborhood in San Francisco, and lobbing for good food politics in Washington, D.C. ***PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A ROUGH CUT VERSION***

Edible City – Part 3 – Joy, Jessica and Jim

Part 3 features educator and activist Joy Moore, writer and chef Jessica Prentice, and math teacher and urban farmer Jim Montgomery. ome topics discussed include: nutrition awareness, locavorism, community supported kitchens, and animal husbandry. ***PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A ROUGH CUT VERSION***

Oakland Roots

The crew of Edible City helps sheet mulch a new urban garden in Oakland, California.

MyFarm

MyFarm is a decentralized urban farm which grows vegetables in backyard gardens throughout the city of San Francisco. For more info go to myfarmsf.com

The Open Restaurant

Open Restaurant is a dining experience/art installation. A temporary dining event staged for one night only. The theme for this evening was Urban Farming.

Interview with Eric Holt-Giménez of Food First (pt. 1)

Eric Holt-Giménez is executive director of Food First, the institute for food & development policy. In part 1 of our interview, filmed in August of 2008, Eric talks about Food First’s mission and the 30 year odyssey that led him to the cause of food justice.

Urban Farmer Manuel Arrias

Oakland retiree and urban farmer Manuel Arrias shares his thoughts about gardening as therapy.

Interview: Michael Dimock, Exec. Director, Roots of Change

Michael Dimock is the president of Roots of Change, a California based organization focused on creating a sustainable food system by the year 2030. In our interview, filmed in October of 2008, Michael defines the concept of a foodshed, the importance of changing language in regards to food policy, the farm bill, how to get politicians to care about food policy, his own personal history with the food system, what a sustainable food system in the San Francisco Bay Area [...]

Interview with Preston Maring, M.D.

Dr. Preston Maring is the Associate Physician-in-Chief at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Oakland, where he helped to establish a Farmer’s Market. In our interview, filmed in May 2009, Dr. Maring discusses setting up the farmer’s market, the relationship between preventative medicine and good food, as well as discussing the joy cooking for oneself can provide.