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Farm to Trailer: A Documentary
July 28, 2011 – 9:00 am | 2 Comments
Farm to Trailer: A Documentary

Farm To Trailer documents the award-winning Odd Duck food trailer in Austin, Texas and chef Bryce Gilmore’s use of only locally-grown, organic food for their menu. The film also examines the Farm To Table movement, how it’s effecting the Austin food scene and the benefits for consumers.

Put Your Voice on the Table Video Contest
June 10, 2010 – 6:34 pm | 4 Comments
Put Your Voice on the Table Video Contest

Farm to Table is creating a video collage of all the people out there who eat food from farmers (that’s everyone), which we will send to the USDA, the White House, and The Food Revolution Team, as a message that there is a need for change. A video petition, if you will.

Black Cat Organic Farm
May 27, 2010 – 6:47 pm | No Comment

About a month ago, I began working on a Culinary Gardening video series in collaboration with Boulder Valley Media Alliance (Channel 22) and local chef, Eric Skokan, the owner of Black Cat Farm Table Bistro.

Farm to Fourth-Floor Walk-up
May 5, 2010 – 2:21 pm | 2 Comments
Farm to Fourth-Floor Walk-up

This video follows food from an organic CSA located 200 miles north of New York City to the hands of urban consumers, providing a glimpse of the simultaneous laboriousness and efficiency of a local food system and the variety of people partaking in the growing farm-to-table movement.

From Grass to Cheese: A Documentary About the Nolan Family Dairy Farm
April 20, 2010 – 4:32 pm | 2 Comments
From Grass to Cheese: A Documentary About the Nolan Family Dairy Farm

The Nolan family farm has the opportunity to get a documentary made about the way they raise their cows and produce healthy, wholesome milk. This movie, From Grass to Cheese, would do a lot to educate the public about the way milk ought to be made, but they need our help to raise some money. Right now, they are only 34% to their goal, and there is only one week left.

Toiling with a New Green Thumb
March 16, 2010 – 7:10 am | No Comment
Toiling with a New Green Thumb

Sometimes it takes years to find your groove, to discover what truly makes you happy each and every day. You think, toil, seek and shift. Some grooves reveal themselves faster than others; providing varying levels of anxiety and unwelcome hiccups along the way. Inevitably, the process to smooth out the hiccups often leads you one step closer to finding your groove.

S.510 Could Kill the Real Food Movement
March 11, 2010 – 9:00 am | 11 Comments
S.510 Could Kill the Real Food Movement

An exciting development in agriculture and rural economies in recent years is the increasing desire and enthusiasm of consumers to buy food direct from farmers and producers, and with that, new businesses and new farmers entering agriculture. S.510 will effectively kill this positive trend.

Jamie Oliver’s Emerging American Meal
March 1, 2010 – 9:25 am | No Comment
Jamie Oliver’s Emerging American Meal

Jamie Oliver, British celebrity chef, is on a mission to revolutionize America’s food industry by educating children and teaching families how to cook.

BK Farmyards Needs Your Help, Now!
February 22, 2010 – 9:36 am | No Comment
BK Farmyards Needs Your Help, Now!

The Future of Good Food Starts with Good Ideas: BK Farmyards from SkeeterNYC on Vimeo.
One of the most important things we can do to support the sustainable food movement is to educate new generations, especially …

Interview: Steve Jenkins of Fairway Market, Part 2
December 21, 2009 – 2:56 pm | 3 Comments

Part 2 of my video interview with Steve Jenkins of Fairway Market is below. Produced and directed by Stacey Szewczyk, the second half of our interview finds Steve and I discussing the search for authenticity within the food movement, the viability of a Fairway in Williamsburg and the evolution of Brooklyn as an eating destination.