What Will We Eat?: The Search for Healthy Local Food

"What Will We Eat?: The Search for Healthy Local Food" (26:00) tells the story of the growing failure of the industrial food system and how a grassroots coalition of small farmers and consumers 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. "What Will We Eat?" features John Ikerd, Fred Kirschenmann, Michael Hamm and John Biernbaum of MSU plus the voices of local West Michigan farmers and consumers working to build a new, revolutionary food system. Shown at the East Lansing, Muskegon, and Saugatuck Film Festivals in 2006. Reviewed by New Farm Magazine. This film is designed to shown in classrooms and public forums to begin a conversation about growing a healthy, humane, homegrown food system that lowers healthcare costs, promote economic development, and builds community.

For more information about this film, or to purchase the DVD/VHS, visit www.localharvest.org

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