March 4, 2009
(626) 844-4586
info@pathtofreedom.com
On March 29, Path to Freedom – Urban
Homestead will host a vegetarian potluck followed by a screening of the
documentary Eating Alaska.
This event will be held 5:30-9:00 PM at 626 Cypress Ave. in
Pasadena. Cost is $10. Space is limited so reservations are
necessary. To reserve, please call (626) 844–4586 or register online at www.pathtofreedom.com/form/eventregistration.htm.
About the Film:
Eating
Alaska
(2008, 56 min.) is a serious and humorous film about connecting to where you
live and eating locally. It is about trying to break away from the industrial
food system when that means not only buying fresh seasonal food from local
farmers, but taking part in a world of hunting and gathering. Made by a former
city dweller now living on an island in Alaska and married to fisherman and
deer hunter, it is a journey into regional food traditions, our connection to
the wilderness and to what we put into our mouths.
The
film portrays a wry quest for safe, healthy, meaningful, and sustainable food
that leads to climbing mountains with women hunters, scrutinizing food labels
with kids, talking moose meat with teens in a small village public school, and exploring
how others in the last frontier, Alaska Natives and non-Natives, are eating.
Eating
Alaska
takes viewers from a lower 48 farmer’s market to the tundra to look for
caribou, from fishing for wild salmon to visiting a vegan cooking class in
Wasilla. This is a story about connecting to where we live, urban or far from
it, and coming to terms with what we eat and how we come by it.
About
the Potluck:
For
the vegetarian potluck, attendees are encouraged to contribute food produced within
a 100-mile radius of their homes (Santa Barbara to San Diego). If that’s
not possible, then strive to purchase organic foods grown within the closest
distance.
About
Path to Freedom:
Sponsoring
organization Path to Freedom is a family-operated, viable urban homestead
project established by Jules Dervaes in 2001 to promote a simpler and more
fulfilling lifestyle and to sow a “homegrown revolution” against
the corporate powers that control the food supply.
Since
the mid–1980s, members of the Dervaes family have steadily worked at
transforming their ordinary city lot in Pasadena into a thriving organic micro
farm that supplies them with food all year round. The family also runs a
successful home business providing their surplus produce to local restaurants.
Through their adventures in growing and preserving their own food, installing a
solar power system, home-brewing biodiesel for fuel, raising backyard farm
animals, and learning back-to-basics skills, these modern-day pioneers have
revived the old-fashioned spirit of self-reliance and resourcefulness. Since
2001, their website, www.PathtoFreedom.com,
has inspired hundreds of thousands to take steps towards a sustainable future
and has generated a 21st century urban homestead movement.