Chris Bedford Films

RECENT FILM & CAMPAIGN WORK ”What Will We Eat?” (26:00) reveals the growing crisis in industrial agriculture and how a grassroots coalition of consumers and small farmers is inventing a healthy, humane, homegrown alternative. Filmed primarily in West Michigan, “What Will We Eat?” focuses on the success of the Sweetwater Local Foods Market in Muskegon – Michigan’s first farmers market to exclusively sell local produce raised according to organic standards and products from animals raised humanely. The story is told through the voices and experiences of small farmers and their customers. Shown at the East Lansing, Muskegon, and Saugatuck Film Festivals in 2006. Reviewed by New Farm Magazine Available in DVD or VHS through Local Harvest (www.localharvest.org)or send $25 made out to: Chris Bedford at 6543 Hancock Road, Montague, MI 49437 The Declaration of Interdependence campaign to amend the Constitution of the State of Michigan through Ballot Initiative to establish “the right of all Michigan residents to locally produced food raised in a manner that enhances biological diversity, builds healthy soil, promotes animal welfare, fosters human and environmental health, and contributes to the rebirth of a thriving small farm rural economy.” This Ballot Initiative is planned for the 2008 General Election.n The Sweetwater Local Foods Market – a non-profit education project is organizing farmers markets provide consumers with access to “healthy, human, homegrown” food.

RECENT FILM & CAMPAIGN WORK

”What Will We Eat?” (26:00) reveals the growing crisis in industrial agriculture and how a grassroots coalition of consumers and small farmers is inventing a healthy, humane, homegrown alternative.

Filmed primarily in West Michigan, “What Will We Eat?” focuses on the success of the Sweetwater Local Foods Market in Muskegon – Michigan’s first farmers market to exclusively sell local produce raised according to organic standards and products from animals raised humanely. The story is told through the voices and experiences of small farmers and their customers. Shown at the East Lansing, Muskegon, and Saugatuck Film Festivals in 2006. Reviewed by New Farm Magazine

Available in DVD or VHS through Local Harvest (www.localharvest.org)or send $25 made out to:
Chris Bedford at
6543 Hancock Road,
Montague, MI 49437

The Declaration of Interdependence campaign to amend the Constitution of the State of Michigan through Ballot Initiative to establish “the right of all Michigan residents to locally produced food raised in a manner that enhances biological diversity, builds healthy soil, promotes animal welfare, fosters human and environmental health, and contributes to the rebirth of a thriving small farm rural economy.” This Ballot Initiative is planned for the 2008 General Election.n

The Sweetwater Local Foods Market
– a non-profit education project is organizing farmers markets provide consumers with access to “healthy, human, homegrown” food.