Monday, April 16th, Hallock Auditorium, 7:30pm
Lewis Environmental Studies Center, 122 Elm Street, Oberlin College
Wednesday, May 9th, Talkies Coffee House, 6:00pm
2521 Market Street, Ohio City, across from Great Lakes Brewing Company
There is a noticeable disconnect as we continuously de-evolve into consuming prepackaged and preprepared meals. Food comes to us "quicker" and "cleaner" or at least boxed and bagged to make us think so. The joy of cooking is slipping from the grasp of the typical American family and being replaced with eating from glossy containers with a growing absence of communication and interaction between family members.
Bit by bit you can see people start to wonder, consciously, why that is. Why are we constantly rushed? Why is it that meal time is taken so for granted? Why is ordering a pizza really better then making a dinner together? With all the time saving kitchen technology we have at our disposal, why is the phone the most used? What the heck are the ingredients in this stuff?
Most importantly, why is it so hard to figure out where our food is coming from?
Check out the trailor for The Low Calorie Diet and if your interest in local urban community farms and community farms project is piqued, check out the showings listed above.
This is all part of the New Agrarian Center that I am so happy about, especially as the City Fresh program is up and running again.
Stewardship, community, education, nutrition, these are building blocks for a new and healthy urban economy and they are not as overlooked as one might fear. Of course neither are they as accessible as they ought to be.
There is a noticeable disconnect as we continuously de-evolve into consuming prepackaged and preprepared meals. Food comes to us "quicker" and "cleaner" or at least boxed and bagged to make us think so. The joy of cooking is slipping from the grasp of the typical American family and being replaced with eating from glossy containers with a growing absence of communication and interaction between family members.
Bit by bit you can see people start to wonder, consciously, why that is. Why are we constantly rushed? Why is it that meal time is taken so for granted? Why is ordering a pizza really better then making a dinner together? With all the time saving kitchen technology we have at our disposal, why is the phone the most used? What the heck are the ingredients in this stuff?
Most importantly, why is it so hard to figure out where our food is coming from?
Check out the trailor for The Low Calorie Diet and if your interest in local urban community farms and community farms project is piqued, check out the showings listed above.
This is all part of the New Agrarian Center that I am so happy about, especially as the City Fresh program is up and running again.
Stewardship, community, education, nutrition, these are building blocks for a new and healthy urban economy and they are not as overlooked as one might fear. Of course neither are they as accessible as they ought to be.
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