New Patagonia Film “Unbroken Ground” Shows How To Join The Food Revolution

“If you want to feed your family healthy food,” says  Patagonia’s founder, Yvon Chouinard, “you’ve gotta ask a lotta questions.”

Helping to answer these questions and aiming to change our relationship with the land and oceans is a new 25 minute film by Chris Malloy, Unbroken Ground coming soon to a Patagonia store near you.  See schedule below.

Unbroken Ground documents how what we eat connects to climate change, and shows us how food plays a critical role in our efforts to solve the environmental crisis. Patagonia Founder Yvon Chouinard, Wes Jackson of The Land Institute, filmmaker Chris Malloy and Birgit Cameron, Director of Patagonia Provisions, examine our current relationship with food in four areas. Watch the trailer below.

In addition to the film, at these in store events you can sample Patagonia’s line of organic, sustainable foods sourced from those featured in the film, and at most screenings hear a panel of experts including the filmmaker discuss the film and the issues it presents.

Patagonia Founder Yvon Chouinard, Wes Jackson of The Land Institute, filmmaker Chris Malloy and Birgit Cameron, Director of Patagonia Provisions will be on hand at the Ventura event on July 7.

CHRIS MALLOY FILMMAKER and BIRGIT CAMERON DIRECTOR, PATAGONIA PROVISIONS attend many of the film screenings along with a panel of other experts

Arrive early and enjoy community! Scheduled free screenings in CA and Hawaii in July include:

W. Jul. 06
Doors 7:00 pm, Film 8:00 pm
La Paloma Theatre
471 S Coast Hwy, Encinitas, CA 92094

Th. Jul. 07
Doors 7:00 pm, Film 8:00 pm
Patagonia Ventura
Great Pacific Iron Works, 235 W. Santa Clara Street, Ventura, CA 93001
with live music before and  a panel discussion with Patagonia Founder Yvon Chouinard, Wes Jackson of The Land Institute, filmmaker Chris Malloy and Birgit Cameron, Director of Patagonia Provisions

T. Jul. 19
Doors 6:30 pm, Film 7:00 pm
Patagonia San Francisco
770 North Point, San Francisco, CA 94109

W. Jul. 20
6:00 PM
Proof Lab, Mill Valley
254 Shoreline Hwy, Mill Valley, CA 94941

Th. Jul. 21
Doors 7:00 pm, Film 7:30 pm
Patagonia Santa Cruz
The Patagonia Outlet, 415 River Street #C, Santa Cruz, CA 95060

Sa. Jul. 30
Doors 6:30pm, Film 7:00pm
Patagonia Hale’iwa
66-250 Kamehameha Hwy., Hale’iwa, HI 96712

Su. Jul. 31
Doors 6:00pm, Film 6:30pm
Patagonia Honolulu
940 Auahi Street, Space 1100, Honolulu, HI 96814

As a food and wine blogger on Wine Predator, as a parent, and as an educator, these issues concern me a great deal. As a child, I wrote about ladybugs and litterbugs, and started backpacking and rock climbing at 12; as a teen I taught mountaineering in Colorado, and I was one of the first 20 women to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada. As a student, I earned degrees in Environmental Studies and in Literature/Creative Writing with an emphasis in nature writing and in Ecopsychology, and as a professor today I teach college composition at a community college where students research and seek to solve environmental problems.

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