The American public is increasingly interested in healthy eating, but many people have poor access to healthy food. The documentary Food Frontiers explores a variety of projects from around the U.S. that are improving access. The people ...See moreThe American public is increasingly interested in healthy eating, but many people have poor access to healthy food. The documentary Food Frontiers explores a variety of projects from around the U.S. that are improving access. The people driving these projects are begging people to steal their ideas - any or all of them - and make them their own. Food Frontiers covers projects ranging from supermarket development to farmers' markets to community-based cooking education - all of them aimed at solving the problem of "food deserts." The film profiles a pioneer in the farm-to-school movement, a citrus grower who helps rescue his farm (and his neighbors' farms) by supplying fruits and vegetables to local schools, some dynamic high school students who run a rural grocery store in Nebraska, and a Virginia pediatrician who prescribes cooking classes for her patients and their parents. This film was produced by the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, and will be included in the Center's free online high school curriculum about the food system, to be launched in August 2016.
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