Community Garden Celebration

Featuring Dinner & Outdoor Screening of
What’s On Your Plate?

Saturday August 13th
6pm : Dinner & Drinks
7:30pm : Movie

Radio Acres Farm, 6255 Radio Dr. 92114
$5 – $10 suggested donation

Join People’s Produce Project and 1 in 10 Coalition in celebrating out recent “WIN” at City Hall and the upcoming Mt. Hope Community Garden. Your donation will go towards the same fund that willingly paid nearly $25,000 in fees to the City of San Diego to establish the new community garden ordinance.

What’s on your plate? is a witty and provocative documentary produced and directed by award-winning Catherine Gund about kids and food politics.

Filmed over the course of one year, the film follows two eleven-year-old multi-racial city kids as they explore their place in the food chain. Sadie and Safiyah take a close look at food systems in New York City and its surrounding areas. With the camera as their companion, the girl guides talk to each other, food activists, farmers, new friends, storekeepers, their families, and the viewer, in their quest to understand what’s on all of our plates.

The girls address questions regarding the origin of the food they eat, how it’s cultivated, how many miles it travels from the harvest to their plate, how it’s prepared, who prepares it, and what is done afterwards with the packaging and leftovers. They visit the usual supermarkets, fast food chains, and school lunchrooms. But they also check into innovative sustainable food system practices by going to farms, greenmarkets, and community supported agriculture programs. They discover that these programs both help struggling farmers to survive on the one hand and provide affordable, locally-grown food to communities on the consumer end, especially to lower-income urban families. In What’s on your plate?, the two friends formulate sophisticated and compassionate opinions on the state of their society, and by doing so inspire hope and active engagement in others.

Family Friendly Event!!! Come out and support the People’s Produce Project’s efforts to increase the healthy food options in Southeastern San Diego. Please RSVP: 619-262-2022 or projectnewvilla?ge.org