Homegrown, Film about Urban Family Farm, Screened at Mill Valley Film Festival

Fall in the Bay Area and it's time for...The Mill Valley Film Festival. The festival usually features a few green films - this year not as many as last year but oh well. Films I saw were Homegrown, Hidden Bounty of Marin: Farm Families in Transition, and Trading Bows and Arrows for Laptops. I'll post about the latter two films in other posts. Also screening was Tapped, a film about bottled water.



Homegrown - "Sustainablity" From Your Own Backyard"

A family in LA living near a freeway starts an urban farm and raises their own supply as well as becoming a small market farm supplying local restaurants and stores. It's cool to see how "revolutionary" the family's approach to lifestyle is, yet there are sacrifices. One also has to question just how sustainable the family's $500 water bill is (as well as the source of the water), but it's well worth a look.



• MVFF description
• Movie web site