The Big Table: FREE Screening @ Bard College WINNER OF THE 2011 NYC FOOD FILM FESTIVAL Olin Auditorium, Bard College—Saturday, February 11th 6:30pm-9:00pm The screening on February 11th will be the pilot episode, MILK. MILK features the Osofsky family, owners of Ronnybrook Farm and Hudson Valley Bounty Member. The Osofsky family have been milking in the Hudson Valley since the 1940’s. The episode offers a unique insight into the rewards along with the physical and emotional toll of life on a dairy farm that is struggling to survive in an industry that has been overtaken by giant corporations. After the screening, viewers will hear from the The Big Table production team of Ben Niles, Molly Knight Raskin and Megan Wetherall along with Ronnybrook owners Ronny and Rick Osofsky; Jennifer Phillips, Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Chas Cerulli, Director of Dining for Chartwell’s at Bard College; Chef Noah Sheetz from the Chefs Consortium and editor of Edible Hudson Valley, Eric Steinman. Moderating the panel will be Todd Erling, Executive Director of HVADC, who will guide these experts through a discussion on how the simple choice to eat a product that is locally produced weaves a thread from you to the farmer. This critical linkage influences individual and family health, the economic sustainability of the farm and the quality of life within the farming communities of the Hudson Valley. |
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By JULIA MOSKIN
December 5, 2011 — Jim Gerritsen lives a far piece from New York City, in a remote part of northern Maine that what was once known as the Potato Empire. But there he was on Sunday — at age 56 making his first trip to the city — to speak at the Farmers March on Wall Street.
Mr. Gerritsen, who grows potatoes, corn and wheat, is president of the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association, a national organization that...
"I’m not a jingoist, but I’d prefer that more of my food came from America. It’d be even better, really, if most of it came from within a few hundred miles of where we live. We’d be more secure and better served, and our land would be better used. And I’d feel prouder, as if we had a food culture rather than a food fetish."
Mark Bittman writes in his New York Times article regarding local food supply, Global Trade along with examining the effects of The Farm Bill and encouraging a method for the new farm bill to serve us...
