Chris Sloan invited the director of
Fresh,
ana Sofia joanes to this episode of
Teachers Teaching Teachers. Paul Allison had fun asking her questions his students had for her after seeing the film earlier in the week. In addition, this podcast features
Haley, a student of Susan Ettenheim's who had visited Our School at Blair Grocery this summer.
FRESH is more than a movie, it’s a gateway to action. Our aim is to help grow FRESH food, ideas, and become active participants in an exciting, vibrant, and fast-growing movement.
When I write we, I don’t mean our small team (officially two of us, with lots of amazing helps from our interns and volunteers) but I mean YOU. All of you. FRESH is a grassroots efforts for a grassroots movement. It’s been tremendously exciting to see the movie catch on and spread like wild fire, being used all over the country as a platform to raise awareness and connecting people to the solutions available in their community.
Within a month of our launch, we’ve received over 20,000 visitors and hundreds of screenings have already been organized. We want to reach 1 million folks. Not just because that would totally feel nice to our ego (mine especially!), but because, we believe that FRESH can truly help get us to a tipping point, when sustainable food will no longer be just a niche
market.
Please help us reach 1 million people (to start with that is.) Organize a home screening or a community screening. Get in touch with us, let us know what we can do more and better. We’re open!
http://www.freshthemovie.com
Also joining us were three educators from Our School at Blair Grocery:
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Nat Turner, Founder and Head of School
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Kyle Meador, Director of Education Programs
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Qasim Davis, Teacher and Dean of Students
They had just won a grant from Fresh because of their wonderful garden.
At Our School at Blair Grocery, FRESH is one of our favorite documentaries. Every time we watch it, it inspires us in our work for food security and food justice for our community. Now, because of the amazing response from our supporters who voted for us to win the
FRESH 1% Grant, we’ll also receive financial support from FRESH — 1% of their annual revenue for 2010.
We hope you enjoy this conversation, and that you leave thinking, "Yes I can!"
Click Read more to see a copy of the chat that was happening during the webcast.