With the 40th anniversary of Earth Day upon us, we are pleased to share with this you this video about an exciting and innovative collaborative project taking place in San Francisco, California. Coordinated and funded by Slow Food San Francisco and others, the Sanchez Elementary School now hosts a vertical vegetable garden program – the first in San Francisco. The city of San Francisco is so impressed and proud of the project that they recently awarded the Sanchez Elementary School with their highest commendation for “working and instituting the first vertical garden in a public school”. With continued success and support, this project may open the door for other urban schools to utilize unused vertical space as green learning environments.
Watch this Slow Food San Francisco video to learn more about this innovative vertical garden project:
Only a city as food-obsessed as New York could spawn the NYC Food Film Festival. Produced in association with the James Beard Foundation and benefiting the Food Bank For New York City, the 2010 NYC Food Film Festival runs from Wednesday, June 23rd to Sunday, June 27th. Summer 2010 marks the fourth year of this exciting week of events in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens where food and film enthusiasts are invited to taste what they see on the screen. Yes, the NYC Food Film Festival serves the food that is seen in the films. Some of the events feature free food films and free film foods. What more could you ask for?
As an official selection in last year’s NYC Food Film Festival, we especially enjoyed participating in the special preview event held at the James Beard House. We screened a trailer (followed by an enthusiastic discussion with the audience) from our award winning documentary New Jersey’s Red October,:
Watch New Jersey’s Red October Trailer here:
So we encourage you to do as the NYC Food Film Festival organizers Harry Hawk and George Motz suggest, and go watch what you eat!
Dana Bucur is involved in the agribusiness sector in Romania. Her professional life started in 1996, teaching students about Management and Marketing. In 1998 she had the great opportunity to join Mr. Peter Topham’s Romanian team. Topham is one of the top 10 UK business farmers and between the years of 1998 to 2006 he had large agricultural investments in Romania mainly in farming.
Dana has worked for an agricultural trader (UK), for a large olive farm and a large diary enterprise. She holds an MBA, which she earned in the UK and an Agribusiness MBA that she earned in Romania & Germany.
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