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What's Organic About Organic? Screenings
Florida Organic Growers (FOG) is working with organizations across Florida to provide screenings of the documentary film "What's Organic About Organic?" co-produced and starring FOG Executive Director Marty Mesh and directed by Shelley Rogers. For information on bringing the film to your Florida community Contact FOG.
The film illustrates that the organic food debate extends beyond personal choice and into the realm of social responsibility, delving into the conflicts that arise when a grassroots agricultural movement evolves into a booming international market. As the film moves from farm fields to government meetings to industry trade shows, we see the hidden costs of conventional agriculture. We also see how our health, the health of our planet, and the agricultural needs of our society are all intimately connected. The film compels us to look forward, towards a new vision for our culture and encourages us to ask, "How can we eat with an ecological consciousness?"
Screenings
March 24, 2010, Hippodrome State Theatre, Gainesville Environmental Film and Arts Festival, Gainesville
March 30, 2010, Hippodrome State Theatre, Gainesville Environmental Film and Arts Festival, Gainesville
March 31, 2010, Conservancy of Southwest Florida, Naples
April 10, 2010, Enzian Theatre, Florida Film Festival, Orlando
May 15, 2010, Ocala Civic Theatre, Organic Food & Film Festival, Ocala
Sept. 10, 2010, University of Florida, Gainesville
Sept. 13, 2010, Virginia Garden Organic Grocery, Virginia Beach
Oct. 26, 2010, Seaside Reperatory Theatre, Santa Rosa Beach, FL in collaboration with Twin Oaks Farm and Raw & Juicy Juice Bar
Nov. 15, 2010, Studio@620, St Petersburg, FL in collaboration with Slow Food Tampa Bay
Nov. 16, 2010, Florida Atlantic University, Jupiter, FL in collaboration with the EnviroClub
Nov. 17, 2010, Majestic Theatre, Vero Beach, FL in collaboration with Growing Healthy Kids
Nov. 19, 2010, Green Monkey Yoga Studio, Miami Beach, FL in collaboration with MindfulOrganics and Green Monkey Yoga Studio
Jan. 21, 2011, Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group Conference, Chattanooga, TN
Sept. 15, 2011, The Villages, Florida
Oct. 30, 2011, Worden Farm, Punta Gorda, FL