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Liked FROM SEED TO SEED and now you’re curious about what you can do? Here are just a few ways to contribute to your community, along with some related films and resources to help you learn more and take action.
what you can do
Buy and eat local, ecologically grown food
Start a garden, and get your school or community involved
Save seeds, start a seed bank, and participate in a seed exchange
Shop at your local farmers’ market
Join a CSA (Community Shared Agriculture)
Get to know your local farmer
Talk to your policy makers about sustainable food systems
Preserve food and cook at home with your local, chemical-free ingredients
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Films You Should See
...And This Is My Garden is an inspirational documentary film about the power of education to foster healthier lifestyles and to reconnect youth to the earth. The film follows the teachers and their students for a season of planting, harvesting, preserving, and ultimately celebrating the fruits of their labour at the Mel Johnson School annual harvest display and community feast.
Interweaving the personal and the political, Modified is anchored around the filmmaker’s relationship to her mom, a gardener and food activist who battled cancer during the film's production. Their intimate mother-daughter quest for answers, fuelled by a shared love of food, reveals the extent to which the agribusiness industry controls our food policies, making a strong case for a more transparent and sustainable food system.
A perfect storm is brewing as agriculture pioneer Cary Fowler races against time to protect the future of our food. Seed banks around the world are crumbling, crop failures are producing starvation and rioting, and the accelerating effects of climate change are affecting farmers globally. Fowler and the farmers embark on passionate and personal journeys that may save the one resource we cannot live without: our seeds.
As many irreplaceable seeds near extinction, SEED reveals the harrowing and heartening story of passionate seed keepers as they wage a David and Goliath battle against chemical seed companies, defending a 12,000 year food legacy.
Vandana Shiva is a modern day revolutionary, and for forty years has been fighting a heroic battle on behalf of humanity and the ecologically besieged natural systems that support us. But she is opposed by powerful multinational corporations invested in continuing their toxic though lucrative agricultural practices. By profiling one of the greatest activists of modern times, the film looks at the epic struggle over who controls the world’s food systems, and asks the question, who will prevail?
Clear-eyed and intimate, Farmsteaders follows Nick Nolan and his young family on a journey to resurrect his late grandfather’s dairy farm as agriculture moves toward large-scale farming. A study of place and persistence, Farmsteaders points an honest and tender lens at everyday life in rural America, offering an unexpected voice for a forsaken people: those who grow the food that sustains us.
First We Eat: Food Security North of 60 celebrates the ingenuity, resourcefulness & knowledge of Northern Canadians and our relationship to the land through the food that we hunt, fish, gather, grow and raise in the North.
Filmed over 9 months, off the grid, without external crew, and featuring the unique perspectives of children, All The Time In The World explores the theme of disconnecting from our hectic and technology laden lives in order to reconnect with each other, ourselves and our natural environment – parents connecting with children, children connecting with nature.
Learn More
Direct Farm Manitoba - Find your farm and market
SeedChange - Formerly USC Canada. Farmers fighting for justice, health and sustainability
Seeds of Diversity - Protecting Canada's seed biodiversity
Seed Savers - A movement of seed preservers and distributors
National Farmers’ Union of Canada - Strong communities building sustainable farms
Natural Systems Agriculture, U of M, Participatory Plant Breeding - Developing and maintaining cultivars for farmers
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