"Fresh," the Movie
This spring has put me in a meditative mood. Watching interviews with ana Sophia joanes, the director of the documentary Fresh (screening was on 4/10/10 at UVM), I sense a kindred spirit in thinking about food, sustainability, and raising a family.
Last spring, writing for the Huffington Post, a pregnant Joanes said “making a movie might or might not be good preparation for mothering, but Fresh sure changed the way I feed myself during pregnancy and how I’ll feed my baby. It’s changed the way I approach life.” That's definitely how I felt when I was pregnant.
Joanes encourages us to change the food system by changing our own, personal, intimate relationship with food. “Not only is food tasty and personal and cultural and pleasurable, but it affects your healthy directly….It is a microcosm of all the problems, but also all the solutions,” she says in an interview posted on YouTube.
You can’t help thinking about the future when you have children, and thinking about how you want them to grow up. You want to nurture them and make them feel part of what Joanes calls the “web of life,” where everything has a place.
Being a part of a sustainable food system means taking the time to slow down and enjoy the gifts of the seasons.