Community Comes Out for Fresh Food Ideas at FRESH Screening

Over 40 people gathered together Oct. 8 at Yes! Solar Solutions in Stone Creek Village to view a free screening of the independent film Fresh and learn about how several entrepreneurs are working to change the way we grow food and share food in local communities.

Many thanks to Kathy and Stew Miller of Yes! Solar Solutions, a WWFM market sponsor, for hosting the event, to Whole Foods Market of Cary for providing local, healthful snacks and to Carolina Heritage Winery for sharing its organic wine. Thanks also to all those who came out for the screening and brought non-perishable food items for the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle, which picks up donations from the Western Wake Farmers’ Market at the end of each market.

Fresh is not in theaters, but hundreds of groups and individuals have organized screenings like this one as part of a grassroots effort to help grow “fresh” food and move sustainable farming beyond a niche market. Fresh celebrates the farmers and other Americans who are re-inventing our food system. They have seen the transformation of agriculture into an industrial model, and the harmful effects of that change. Now they are forging healthier, sustainable alternatives to farming.