Sonoma Environmental Film Festival

2PM – 4:30PM
Admission: $10 general / $8 student and senior
Following the films there will be a conference style discussion with guests speakers and audience participation.

Short films:
BK Farmyards: Growing More Than Just Produce in NYC Backyards (5 mins) by Lisa de Gvia

BK Farmyards is a Brooklyn based decentralized farming network providing local food to reduce the city's reliance on fossil fuels and offering local jobs to boost the economy. They partner with homeowners, developers, schools, and city agencies to provide affordable produce to neighborhoods that lack access to fresh foods. Their strategy is to stay nimble, growing food between the cracks of urban development.

What's On Your Plate? (40 mins) by Catherine Gund
Sponsored by edible Marin & Wine Country
This film is a witty and provocative documentary about kids and food politics. Over the course of one year, it follows two eleven-year-old girls as they explore their place in the food chain. Sadie and Safiyah talk to food activists, farmers, and storekeepers, as they address questions regarding the origin of the food they eat, how it's cultivated, and how many miles it travels from farm to fork.

"Congratulations, Sadie and Safiyah! It is great to have you take us through the food cycle. As somebody said: 'You are what you eat.' Thank you for helping us get it right. You will definitely capture the imagination of your peers and generations beyond."
Kofi Annan, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former UN Secretary General.

Moderator: Kathleen Thompson Hill
Sonoma School Garden Project Founder & Director
Food & Wine Editor, Sonoma Index-Tribune
kathleenthompsonhill.com

Panelists:
Grayson James - Founder, Petaluma Bounty. As a principal with Resource Performance Partners, Grayson has also worked with organizations and local governments to improve their sustainability performance, and formed the City of Petaluma's Build It Green program and Green Team in 2006. Grayson's topic is Growing a Sustainable Food System - What We're Learning.

Meg Easter-Dawson, MSW
Valley of the Moon Children's Center
Sonoma County Human Services Department

Meg Easter-Dawson is the Program Development Manager for Volunteer and Community Programs at the Valley of the Moon Children's Center. In this role she manages community involvement in the Children's Center including coordinating on-site volunteers, developing partnerships with community-based organizations to support program needs of the children at the center, and supporting fundraising efforts. Meg will talk about the center's healthy food kitchen program and vegetable garden.

Ruth Roberson has been in the School Garden movement since 2000. She is one of the original founders of the School Garden Network of Sonoma County. Currently she is Project Coordinator for a Local Incentive Award program called the Network for a Healthy California through the California Dept. of Public Health. She is currently helping with the design of Sonoma County's first community focused garden on regional park land at Larson Park.

Rachel Kohn Obut –
Rachel has been passionate about farming since childhood when she attended farm camp in Pennsylvania. After graduating from Oberlin College in 2005, she worked on farms on the east coast and the west coast, in France and the Middle East. In 2010 she and Austin Blair created Lunita Farm, a 1 acre mixed vegetable farm located in Sonoma Valley. Following the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) model, Lunita Farm primarily markets its produce through a weekly vegetable subscription service.