Here’s another video with herbalist and raw food chef Brigitte Mars. Here she talks about how you can make vegan milk with nuts.

I was too busy today to make it to the gym:(

2.24.10 FOOD LOG

11:00 AM
Apple w/ peanut butter and fresh squeezed oj.

3:30 PM
Burrito with black beans, taco seasoned morning start meal starters (meat substitute), in a Mission “life balance” whole wheat tortilla and topped with some homemade green chili.

7:00 PM
SAME Cafe: a small amount of spaghetti with red sauce and a cup of minestrone soup.

10:30 PM
Green leaf salad with onion, peppers, mushroom, cucumber, tomato, celery, carrots, and balsamic vinegar.

Last Friday Chris and I visited my friend Brigitte Mars in Boulder to talk about food and nutrition. Brigitte is an herbalist and raw food chef. Here the first video of many from our afternoon visit. In it she talks about growing sunflower sprouts at home as a fun way to have fresh greens year round. I know the quality on these videos is terrible. I’ve tried rendering the video many different ways and it looks bad no matter what I do. My computer sucks. I will be getting a new computer soon and will redo all these  videos then.

For exercise today I did 45 minutes on the bike, 2000 meters on the row machine (damn this thing kicks my ass), and about 20 minutes of upper body. I forgot to write down what I did.

2.23.10 FOOD LOG

10:00 AM
Banana and a glass of fresh squeezed oj.

11:30 AM
I had lunch at SAME Cafe: small salad and a cup of vegetable soup.

3:00 PM
An apple with some peanut butter

8:30 PM
I had dinner at Watercourse: Greek salad and some Buffalo Seitan. 1 glass of wine and 1 light beer.

Fresh
Tuesday, January 26
7:00 PM
SAME Cafe
2023 E. Colfax Ave, Denver
$5 suggested donation or 1 hour volunteer

FRESH celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Each has witnessed the rapid transformation of our agriculture into an industrial model, and confronted the consequences: food contamination, environmental pollution, depletion of natural resources, and morbid obesity. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet.

Among several main characters, FRESH features urban farmer and activist, Will Allen, the recipient of MacArthur’s 2008 Genius Award; sustainable farmer and entrepreneur, Joel Salatin, made famous by Michael Pollan’s book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma; and supermarket owner, David Ball, challenging our Wal-Mart dominated economy.

A River of Waste
Thursday, November 12
7:00 PM
Mercury Cafe
2199 California St, Denver

A RIVER OF WASTE exposes a huge health and environmental scandal in our modern industrial system of meat and poultry production. Some scientists have gone so far as to call the condemned current factory farm practices as “mini Chernobyls.” In the U.S and elsewhere, the meat and poultry industry is dominated by dangerous uses of arsenic, antibiotics, growth hormones and by the dumping of massive amounts of sewage in fragile waterways and environments. The film documents the vast catastrophic impact on the environment and public health as well as focuses on the individual lives damaged and destroyed.

Asparagus!
Stalking the American Life
Thursday, June 11
7:00 PM
Mercury Cafe
2199 California St, Denver
$5 suggested donation or 1 hour volunteer

Our friends in Michigan are having a tough time. Not only are thousands of union members out of work, the government is helping other countries grow asparagus as part of the war on drugs, creating unfair competition for farmers in Oceana County, once the Asparagus Capital of the World. But Michigan farmers are not giving up! Taking on fast food, free trade and the U.S. drug war, these indomitable Michiganders struggle to find creative ways to save their livelihood and their beloved roots. This fascinating, award-winning film, called ‘oddly brilliant’ by New York Magazine, unveils the complex connections between community identity, farming, politics and trade.

WATCH THE TRAILER

Last summer I filmed my friend Brigitte Mars at her home in Boulder talking about her wild lawn. Brigitte is an herbalist and author of 12 books on natural medicine. Instead of growing grass she grows a beautifully diverse lawn of food and medicine. I hope more people begin to take her example.

Note: The audio is out of sync towards the end. This is a problem I’ve been having with my videos uploaded to Vimeo. I’m still looking for a solution.

Global Gardener
Permaculture with Bill Mollison
Thursday, April 23
6:30 PM
NOTE: The film starts 30
minutes earlier tonight
Mercury Cafe
2199 California St, Denver
$5 suggested donation or 1 hour volunteer

BILL MOLLISON is a practical visionary. For nearly two decades he has traveled the globe spreading the word about permaculture, the method of sustainable agriculture that he devised. Permaculture weaves together microclimate, annual and perennial plants, animals, soils, water management and human needs into intricately connected productive communities. Mollison has proved that even in the most difficult conditions permaculture empowers people to turn wastelands into food forests.

2009 Academy Award Nominee
for Best Documentary Feature
The Garden
Monday, February 23
7:00 PM
The Oriental Theater
4335 West 44th Ave, Denver
Tickets: $10

The fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles is the largest of its kind in the United States. Started as a form of healing after the devastating L.A. riots in 1992, the South Central Farmers have since created a miracle in one of the country’s most blighted neighborhoods. Growing their own food. Feeding their families. Creating a community.

But now, bulldozers are poised to level their 14-acre oasis.

The Garden follows the plight of the farmers, from the tilled soil of this urban farm to the polished marble of City Hall. Mostly immigrants from Latin America, from countries where they feared for their lives if they were to speak out, we watch them organize, fight back, and demand answers:

Why was the land sold to a wealthy developer for millions less than fair-market value? Why was the transaction done in a closed-door session of the LA City Council? Why has it never been made public?

And the powers-that-be have the same response: “The garden is wonderful, but there is nothing more we can do.”

Good Food: Sustainable Farming in the Northwest
Saturday, November 29
3:30 PM
Mercury Cafe
2199 California St, Denver
$5 donation or 1 hour volunteer

Something remarkable is happening in the fields and orchards of the Pacific Northwest. After leaving the land for decades, family farmers are making a comeback. They are growing much healthier food, and more food per acre, while using less energy and water than factory farms. And most of this food is organic.

For decades Northwest agriculture was focused on a few big crops for export. But climate change and the end of cheap energy mean that each region needs to produce more of its own food and to grow it more sustainably. Good Food visits farmers, farmers’ markets, distributors, stores, restaurants and public officials who are developing a more sustainable food system for all.