Tuesday, 15 March 2011

Gardens of Destiny

Gardens of Destiny is a documentary examining sustainable agriculture and solutions to attaining sustainable food production in North America. If you are interested in broader issues of industrial agriculture this documentary is a good resource.

Synopsis:
  • Filmmaker, Jocelyn Demers meets Dan Jason on Salt Spring Island on Canada's west coast. Dan is an organic gardener with a fantastic selection of seeds, vegetables, grains, medicinal plants and flowers. He is also the head of the grassroots organization called the Seed and Plant Sanctuary for Canada, a network of Canadian gardeners who are preserving as much plant diversity as is possible. Mr. Jason has been a long time critic of the non-organic food system in North America. Jocelyn Demers explores Dan's garden and seed world and investigates what other experts from the agriculture milieu think about Dan's observations.

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