from Lasercave Productions:
Growing Awareness
a film by Jade Ajani
This feature-length documentary from the Pacific Northwest examines Community-Supported Agriculture (csa), through which consumers buy shares of a local farm's harvest, receiving a weekly supply of fresh food throughout the growing season. Small-scale organic farmers and csa members from around the South Puget Sound region share their views on the present reality of small-scale farming and its impact on farmers, consumers, and the local community as a whole. With issues of sustainability and food security coming to the fore throughout North America and beyond, Growing Awareness illustrates the importance of local small farms to a community and critiques the emergence of an organic-industrial complex as well as the modern corporate-controlled and government-subsidized global food system. Director Ajani grew up on a small farm in the Independence Valley and his passion for the subject is evident in the beautiful imagery and original music that accompanies the observations and insights shared in the film.
Farms in Washington State featured in the film include: Helsing Junction Farm, Rising River Farm, Boistfort Valley Farm, Common Ground CSA, Left Foot Organics, Whispering Springs Farm and others.
Growing Awareness received the Jerome Hill Award from Bard College for Exceptional Work in the Documentary Tradition.
"Growing Awareness" a film by Jade Ajani. This feature-length documentary from the Pacific Northwest examines Community-Supported Agriculture (csa), through which consumers buy shares of a local farm's harvest, receiving a weekly supply of fresh food throughout the growing season. Small-scale organic farmers and csa members from around the South Puget Sound region share their views on the present reality of small-scale farming and its impact on farmers, consumers, and the local community as a whole.
With issues of food security and sustainability coming to the fore throughout North America, Growing Awareness illustrates the importance of local small farms to a community and critiques the emergence of an organic-industrial complex as well as the modern corporate-controlled global food system.
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