Food for Thought

Week of February 12, 2022

Food for Thought –  A conversation and visual exploration into redefining our relationship with food, farming, and the land.

 

 

Michael Ableman is a farmer, author, and photographer. He is the cofounder and director of Sole Food Street Farms and one of the early visionaries of the urban agriculture movement. Ableman has created high-profile urban farms in Watts, California; Goleta, California; and Vancouver, British Columbia. He has also worked on and advised dozens of similar projects throughout North America and the Caribbean, and is the founder of the nonprofit Center for Urban Agriculture. Ableman is the subject of the award-winning PBS film Beyond Organic narrated by Meryl Streep. His books include From the Good Earth, On Good Land, Fields of Plenty, and Street Farm; Growing Food, Jobs, and Hope on the Urban Frontier. Ableman lives and farms at the 120-acre Foxglove Farm on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia.  http://bit.ly/Ableman_EPKJune | http://michaelableman.com/ www.michaelableman.com   |  www.foxglovefarmbc.com   |   www.solefoodfarms.com