Upcoming Events
La Milpa Organica Farm Open House | Escondido
Saturday, July 19@ 4pm to 10pm
9928 Protea Gardens Road, Escondido California 92026
Potluck & Wood-fired Pizzas | Family-friendly Films after dark
This is a perfect opportunity to visit this little agricultural gem. Farms are nice places to hang out, and what Barry Logan has created here is a perfect example of how beautiful things happen when a community embraces a farm -- and a model of what we intend Willow Glen Farm to be. There'll be fun entertainment and we'll serve freshly made, wood-fired pizzas. After dark we'll show a family-friendly, inspiring food movie -- including a cartoon or two -- under the oak trees. Rain cancels.
Click here for a map to La Milpa Organica Farm
Click here to go to the La Milpa Organica website
Easing into Slow Food Look Reporter Mike Lee's account of a recent open house at La Milpa Organica Farm in Escondido and its celebration of San Diego's bounty. SignOnSanDiego, July 15, 2008.
Food for Thought Film Series
Beginning in August, this monthly film series, produced in conjunction with Slow Food San Diego, features engaging and critically acclaimed films about food and its connection and importance to our community’s health. Films will be shown in different venues throughout our region, offering maximum exposure within the San Diego community. The showings will be free to the public with light, local, healthy snacks served. Discussions will follow. Our goal is to reach further into our community and engage local citizens about local food issues.
Food for Thought is sponsored by Ocean Beach People's Organic Food Co-op. For more information about People's, a 10,000-family, member-owned co-operative organic food store, visit their website: www.oceanbeachpeoples.com
The Real Dirt on Farmer John
Saturday, August 16, 7pm
Joyce Beers Community Center
3900 Vermont St.
Hillcrest (Uptown Shopping District)
The Real Dirt on Farmer John will turn every idea you ever had about what it means to be an American farmer, or an American dreamer, on its head. Meet Farmer John, the incredible human being whose inspirational story of revolutionizing his family farm and redeeming his own life has won accolades and awards at film festivals around the world.
Jack Johnson Concert Ticket Raffle! After the film we'll raffle off five pairs of tickets to the Jack Johnson concert on August 30 (see below). Raffle tickets cost $5 each, or 12 for $50. Second prize will be "San Diego Loves You" t-shirts.
King Corn
Saturday, September 27, 6pm
Serra Mesa/Kearney Mesa Public Library
9005 Aero Drive, San Diego, 92123
King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation.
In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat -- and how we farm.
The Future of Food
October 7, 6pm
International House Great Hall
UCSD campus
Directions & Map
Panel dscussion with agriculture
& food experts will follow
The Future of Food offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade.
Shot on location in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, THE FUTURE OF FOOD examines the complex web of market and political forces that are changing what we eat as hugemultinational corporations seek to control the world's foodsystem. The film also explores alternatives to large-scale industrial agriculture, placing organic andsustainableagriculture as real solutions tothe farm crisis today.
Jack Johnson in Concert
Saturday, August 30
Cricket Amphitheatre
2050 Entertainment Cr.
Chula Vista, CA 91911
Doors open at 5pm
Concert starts at 7pm
San Diego Roots is teaming up with Jack Johnson on his 2008 World Tour and All At Once, a new social action network connecting nonprofits with people who want to become active in their local and world community. All At Once comes to life online at www.AllAtOnce.org and at every Jack Johnson concert in the Village Green, a collection of interactive booths where you can get educated, get inspired, and connect face-to-face with us and other local, national, and international non-profits.
How you can take action!
- Buy a raffle ticket! We're raffling off five pairs to tickets to the concert. The raffle takes place on August 16 after our showing of the film, "The Real Dirt on Farmer John" in Hillcrest (see Food For Thought Film Series above). Tickets are $5 each or 12 for $50.
- Become a Member of All At Once! Visit www.AllAtOnce.org to check out what you can do before, during, and after the show to get involved. Get exclusive music downloads from Jack and friends.
- Visit us at the show! We will be at Jack Johnson’s concert in Chula Vista at the Cricket Amphitheater. Please come visit us in the Village Green, take environmental action, get your Village Green Passport stamped and enter to win a chance to view the concert from the stage!
- Help us raise funds! Jack Johnson is matching every dollar contributed to us at the show and online. Please make a contribution right now and your money will be doubled by Jack Johnson’s new charity, the Johnson Ohana Charitable Foundation! (Up to $2500 per group).
Collectively, individual actions create global change. Your actions, your voice, and your choices, all have a huge impact. www.AllAtOnce.org
Slow Food Nation
August 29 - September 1, 2008
San Franscisco
The inaugural Slow Food Nation will take place in San Francisco on Labor Day weekend 2008, a time when produce is at its peak. The event, a major project of Slow Food USA, has received the support of Mayor Gavin Newsom’s office and the Fort Mason Foundation and will be held in partnership with both the City of San Francisco and Fort Mason Center.
Slow Food Nation will celebrate, explore, and educate about food that is delicious, ecologically sustainable and socially just – furthering “good, clean and fair food” according to Slow Food founder and visionary, Carlo Petrini. Slow Food Nation is expected to attract tens of thousands of people of all ages and backgrounds.
Slow Food Nation will show how food and agriculture are interwoven with the larger issues of the environment, health, education, creating community, the global economy and long-term sustainability. It will include tastings, forums, workshops, films, exhibits, music and talks by such luminaries as Eric Schlosser, Marion Nestle, Michael Pollan, Wendell Berry, Alice Waters, Vandana Shiva, and Carlo Petrini, as well as hundreds of the most respected farmers and food artisans from across the country
For more information, including ongoing updates, visit their website: www.slowfoodnation.org