Adelaide Premiere
Tuesday 7 December 2010
5.30pm for a 6.00pm screening
Mercury Cinema, 13 Morphett Street, Adelaide
Tickets: $20.00 including Food Forest drinks and delicacies from joel.catchlove@foe.org.au or the Plains to Plate website: http://futureoffoodsa.ning.com/
(ticket sales through these outlets contribute directly to Reclaim the Food Chain events and campaigns)
Watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sDmbbqsGIg
Annemarie and Graham Brookman’s quest for the principles of sustainable living took them to 40 countries but ended when they encountered permaculture, a design system for sustainable living created by David Holmgren and Bill Mollison. It was everything they needed for a bold experiment, giving them a set of principles and techniques with which to plan their lives and a small farm to assess and perfect this new way of living.
The inspiring, practical film traces the physical and economic challenges they overcame: lack of capital, smallness of scale, droughts, floods and the loneliness of the pathfinder, to become one of the World’s iconic permaculture properties and one of Australia’s most awarded organic farms, The Food Forest.
The movie explains the ethos and planning principles of permaculture and illustrates the development of The Food Forest including its role in farmers’ markets, the WWOOFing phenomenon, eco-tourism and education. Beyond the fenceline, the film offers a permaculture vision for the design of sustainable cities and addressing the world’s urgent need for educational, economic and environmental change.
Bookings essential. Tickets are $20.00 each (including drinks and delicacies from The Food Forest). Part proceeds from the tickets support the work of Friends of the Earth and other local community food organisations from joel.catchlove@foe.org.au or the Plains to Plate website: http://futureoffoodsa.ning.com/