This eye-opening documentary by filmmaker Jeff Spitz centers on the modern-day equivalent of WWII-era Victory Gardeners: organic farmers and urban food growers/distributors, who are all working—in this age of big agri-business and food additives—to connect consumers with local food sources. Food Patriots begins very much at home with Spitz and his wife Jennifer and their two sons. Following their older boy's battle with a food-borne illness, Jeff and Jennifer decided to gain more control over their food sources, becoming chicken farmers in a Chicago neighborhood and shopping more deliberately from community farmers. From here, the film branches out to look at: a variety of urban farms; creative means of bringing organic produce to neighborhoods where one can't easily buy those products; large and small farms in rural Illinois; and dealing with superbugs in the food supply chain. A warm and enlightening documentary about the growing local food movement in America, this is highly recommended. Aud: C, P. (T. Keogh)
Food Patriots
(2014) 70 min. DVD: $59.95 ($299 w/PPR from edu.passionriver.com). Passion River. Closed captioned. Volume 30, Issue 2
Food Patriots
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