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Post by ferdzy on Feb 23, 2016 21:19:51 GMT -5
I received a notice about this film from my friends the McQuails (about whom this film is!) and thought it would be of interest to folks here. So here's the link to the site: www.meetingplaceorganicfilm.com/The McQuails have been farming organically here in Ontario since 1973. A lot of it will be about animals, but they have an orchard and have done CSAs for a number of years. One of my favourite seed sellers sells their own strain of snow peas developed over many years. |
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Post by steev on Feb 24, 2016 11:26:01 GMT -5
That's an encouraging watch.
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Post by richardw on Feb 24, 2016 12:53:54 GMT -5
Good om them
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Post by raymondo on Feb 24, 2016 14:56:59 GMT -5
Seem like good people. Do you know when the film is being released?
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Post by MikeH on Feb 24, 2016 19:07:03 GMT -5
I received a notice about this film from my friends the McQuails (about whom this film is!) and thought it would be of interest to folks here. So here's the link to the site: www.meetingplaceorganicfilm.com/The McQuails have been farming organically here in Ontario since 1973. A lot of it will be about animals, but they have an orchard and have done CSAs for a number of years. One of my favourite seed sellers sells their own strain of snow peas developed over many years. Just around the corner from you, more or less. Screening Saturday April 2, 2016 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Location: The Huron County Museum, 110 North Street City/Town: Goderich Free Event A documentary film about how one couple built a sustainable, organic and ecologically diverse farm in a world bent on industrial agriculture and mono cropping. This will be the film's first screening event! Stay afterwards to enjoy an organic cider tasting! Revel Cider will be launching Ontario's first organic hard cider this spring, made with apples from Meeting Place Organic Farm. |
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Post by ferdzy on Feb 24, 2016 23:44:58 GMT -5
Well depends who you mean by "you". I hope I will be able to go. It is a week after my father's memorial meeting and then just 4 weeks before we have to be ready to make our first effort to sell some of dad's enormous license plate collection. (I thought I had managed to avoid the "collecting" bug until I got into seeds.) By the way, I've written about their farm on my blog. seasonalontariofood.blogspot.ca/2008/05/visit-to-meeting-place-organic-farm.htmlAnd I hadn't noticed that they're getting into hard cider! Oh my! Does the Meeting* know about this!?! (Just kidding - I'm sure the Meeting doesn't care.) * They're Quakers. |
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Post by raymondo on Feb 26, 2016 18:45:00 GMT -5
Yum, hard cider. I'm a Quaker too and I know our Meeting wouldn't give a hoot, although they might be peeved if I was making hard cider and failed to offer any to my Friends!
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Post by ferdzy on Feb 26, 2016 19:50:48 GMT -5
Ha! No kidding! I suppose this is the place where I come out and say I know them because we are members of the same Meeting...! There are maybe 2000 of us in all of Canada so I tend to operate on the assumption that no-one's even heard of us, never mind that they *are* us.
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Post by raymondo on Feb 26, 2016 20:48:06 GMT -5
Ha! No kidding! I suppose this is the place where I come out and say I know them because we are members of the same Meeting...! There are maybe 2000 of us in all of Canada so I tend to operate on the assumption that no-one's even heard of us, never mind that they *are* us. A pretty safe assumption I'd say. Australians, if they've heard of Quakers at all, and most haven't, think we wear broad-rimmed black hats or lacy bonnets, use 'thee' and 'thou' when talking to each other and eat Quaker Oats! Hmmm ... well, I do eat Quaker Oats, but I don't think we all do! |
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Feb 27, 2016 1:30:46 GMT -5
first of all i have to say Ray that was hilarious. I like oats, but i prefer them in crunchy clusters in my cereal. mmmm... also, not trying to hijack the thread, but i saw this linked yesterday on the tomato genetic resource center website. It's looks like a documentary i'd like to see. I think that guy is pretty cool. I'll be brutally honest and say that i thought his ted talk presentation was quite horrible, but despite that major disaster i still find him a pretty likable guy. And it is an important subject. www.seedsoftimemovie.com/and thanks for posting a link to this. Looks interesting. |
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Post by philagardener on Feb 27, 2016 7:17:28 GMT -5
Interesting films!
We have an active Meeting a few blocks away - lots of Quakers in the Philadelphia area, many of whom trace family roots back to William Penn's time and the move from England.
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Post by prairiegarden on Feb 27, 2016 19:08:55 GMT -5
first of all i have to say Ray that was hilarious. I like oats, but i prefer them in crunchy clusters in my cereal. mmmm... also, not trying to hijack the thread, but i saw this linked yesterday on the tomato genetic resource center website. It's looks like a documentary i'd like to see. I think that guy is pretty cool. I'll be brutally honest and say that i thought his ted talk presentation was quite horrible, but despite that major disaster i still find him a pretty likable guy. And it is an important subject. www.seedsoftimemovie.com/and thanks for posting a link to this. Looks interesting. Never said who the guy is! Should I have recognized the face? But the thing that wasn't said in the trailer was that Monsanto has access to those seeds, there was a huge fuss about it a few years ago, but they still got in as far as I know. Since they are the antithesis of diversity ...well, you figure it out. |
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Post by MikeH on Feb 28, 2016 4:40:16 GMT -5
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Post by steev on Feb 28, 2016 20:52:34 GMT -5
Australians, if they've heard of Quakers at all, and most haven't, think we wear broad-rimmed black hats Um, Ray? You don't wear a broad-brimmed black hat? |
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Post by richardw on Feb 28, 2016 23:53:48 GMT -5
And despite that typical stereo type of an Australian,i bet ya he wont have corks swinging off that hat either
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