TY - JOUR AU - Glore, Angela PY - 2015/12/17 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Both Timeless and New: Behind the Scenes of Locally Grown Food JF - Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development JA - J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev. VL - 6 IS - 1 SE - Review DO - 10.5304/jafscd.2015.061.018 UR - https://foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/408 SP - 215-216 AB - <p><em>First paragraphs:</em></p><span>Each time I watch the </span><em>Growing Local </em><span>trilogy of short films, my heart feels like I've chosen the wrong profession. The early-morning-mist beauty of these films makes one yearn for more direct participation with farms, farmers, and the business of providing real food to real people.</span><p>For many people, the public face of local food is their local farmers markets: the hands ingrained with dirt stacking a bountiful rainbow of vegetables and fruit on tables shaded by the ubiquitous pop-up canopy. The <em>Growing Local </em>films showcase some of the other faces of local food: the retiring dairy farmer struggling with how to transfer the farm to his son; the accidental butcher providing fair middle-man services to his meat-producing neighbors; the young couple who feel they were born in the wrong time, creating a vibrant hub for local food and community....</p> ER -