'S.O.S: Save Our Seeds' - a ‘hands-on’ documentary produced by the Localising Food Project

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'S.O.S: Save Our Seeds' - A ‘hands-On’ Documentary Produced By The Localising Food Project

Project 2016-03-01 02:19:17 +1300


In 2013, a team of New Zealand permaculture educators hit the road for an ambitious teaching and filming tour: the Localising Food Project. They captured the stories of 250 different local food initiatives on video. Now, they’re distilling a series of documentaries aimed at disseminating successful local models, and inspiring a more self-sufficient, food-resilient nation.  The four part series 'Growing Schools' has just been released and is already attracting international interest.

With the rapidly increasing global ownership and scientific tampering with the integrity of seeds, as well as the legislative implications of NZ’s Food Bill and the looming TPPA, 'S.O.S: Save Our Seeds' has been prioritised as the next documentary to be worked on. 

This educational documentary will show, step by step, how to select, process, store, distribute and propagate seeds – so that each of us can play our part in ensuring the survival of our seeds, now and for our children’s children. 

Your support will help us towards covering the costs of producing this S.O.S. documentary. Money raised beyond this target will assist with promotion and distribution. We are fortunate to have received and continue to receive a tremendous amount of volunteer time and are fundraising only for the balance needed to fund the editing process.  

 

 

According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation over 90% of our vegetable varieties have been lost over the last 100 years. With 95% of the seeds available for purchase in this country being imported from overseas, the diversity and availability of our daily food is endangered. So now our hope lies in community-scale seed saving systems to propogate and protect seed for future generations.  

The Localising Food Project has captured dynamic video footage of inspirational models of seed swaps, seed exchanges, seed libraries, seed banks, and family seed businesses, in order to teach you how to easily replicate these processes in your community.

This educational documentary will show, step by step, how to select, process, store, distribute and propagate seeds – so that each of us can play our part in ensuring the survival of our seeds, now and for our children’s children. 

Your support will help us towards covering the costs of producing this S.O.S. documentary. Money raised beyond this target will assist with promotion and distribution. 

About The Localising Food Project

The Localising Food Project is an initiative of the Institute of Earthcare Education Aotearoa, a New Zealand registered charitable trust, whose objectives include Empowering Communities through Local Food Resilience. All work done to date has been achieved by the generosity of private donations and many thousands of voluntary hours of our dedicated team.

Visit our website localisingfood.com to find out more about the project, view some of our short film stories and download our recently completed 'Growing Schools' documentary.

Vsit our facebook page, sign up for our newsletter to stay in touch with our flourishing localising food community. Also please 'Like' and 'Share' our work and this campaign through your social media - many thanks!

 

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Update from the LFP Team

06/06/2016 at 12:43 PM


Greetings to you our supportive pledgers


This is a little update about the progress of our documentary and the delivery of your rewards…
Robina has been working full-on with film editor Tiago Stamato Velasco (Brazilian filmmaker residing in NZ) on ‘SOS: Save Our Seeds’ before and since the completion of the campaign, and also Tiago has been filming four more action interviews to extend its cultural diversity and geographical representation. 

We have several more weeks to go of film editing, sound editing (by Matt Aickin of Kerikeri) and the creation of original music for the documentary. 
The main documentary will be approx 1 hour 20 minutes, and the sequel called ‘Hands-on Seed Saving’ will be around 15 minutes. 
This will be a You-Tube mini-doco on the practicals of home seed saving, where views learn from a range of SOS presenters guiding them step by step how to select, process, store and share seed. 
Robina will be editing this with Reece Baker (Green Lemon Pictures Ltd) from Kapiti Coast.
 
We anticipate both docos to be ready for your download by the end of June, which is when we plan to get the rest of your rewards to you also. 

For those of you who also pledged to ‘Growing Schools’, our documentary launched at the end of last year, you may be interested to know that there will be an article about it in the next issue of OrganicNZ, a magazine well worth subscribing to. 
This will be our third article about the work of Localising Food Project in that magazine, with more to come. 
As soon as your rewards are dispatched, we will be fundraising for our next doco (already partly completed), ‘Perennial Paradise’, previously titled ‘Fruit & Nuts Unlimited’, through an international crowd funding platform. 
We will inform you when this is happening. 

Wishing you a cosy Winter

Robina McCurdy and the Localising Food Team

Robina McCurdy

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    Ngarie Marriott Jones
    23/04/2016 at 9:58am

    "SOS"

    Elise Wach
    23/04/2016 at 9:38am

    "Thank you for doing this important work!"

    Joshua Tree
    22/04/2016 at 6:00pm
    Dawn
    22/04/2016 at 12:40pm
    tim newsham
    22/04/2016 at 11:44am
    Frances Dearnley
    22/04/2016 at 9:07am
    Chris Laing
    22/04/2016 at 8:31am
    Jan scown
    22/04/2016 at 7:15am
    Ruth Wood
    22/04/2016 at 7:06am
    Niva & Yotam Kay
    22/04/2016 at 6:52am

    "Yeah! Wonderful work!"

    Anonymous pledger
    22/04/2016 at 4:43am
    Rich Freedom
    22/04/2016 at 12:07am
    antony
    21/04/2016 at 9:38pm
    Dee Austring
    21/04/2016 at 8:41pm
    Kai
    21/04/2016 at 8:36pm

    "Massiv thanks to you Robina and everyone involved in doing this important work!"

    Julian Watts
    21/04/2016 at 8:08pm
    Victor MacGill
    21/04/2016 at 6:40pm
    Yana Hoos
    21/04/2016 at 6:29pm
    Rex Graveley
    21/04/2016 at 5:43pm

    "Robina, I think that this is a fantastic concept and I hope that you get all the funding that you need."

    Anonymous pledger
    21/04/2016 at 5:18pm
    Margaret Jefferies
    21/04/2016 at 5:09pm
    Floyd
    21/04/2016 at 5:01pm

    "Keep up the awesome energy Robina and team"

    Anonymous pledger
    21/04/2016 at 4:21pm
    Jayashrii
    21/04/2016 at 3:58pm
    Anonymous pledger
    21/04/2016 at 2:41pm
    Birgit Neumann
    21/04/2016 at 2:10pm
    Fred Engel
    21/04/2016 at 1:05pm

    "Good Luck Tejas"

    Paul van Wering
    21/04/2016 at 12:54pm
    Katherine Smith
    21/04/2016 at 12:08pm
    Gail Powell
    21/04/2016 at 10:29am

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    'S.O.S: Save Our Seeds' - A ‘hands-On’ Documentary Produced By The Localising Food Project

    Project 2016-03-01 02:19:17 +1300


    In 2013, a team of New Zealand permaculture educators hit the road for an ambitious teaching and filming tour: the Localising Food Project. They captured the stories of 250 different local food initiatives on video. Now, they’re distilling a series of documentaries aimed at disseminating successful local models, and inspiring a more self-sufficient, food-resilient nation.  The four part series 'Growing Schools' has just been released and is already attracting international interest.

    With the rapidly increasing global ownership and scientific tampering with the integrity of seeds, as well as the legislative implications of NZ’s Food Bill and the looming TPPA, 'S.O.S: Save Our Seeds' has been prioritised as the next documentary to be worked on. 

    This educational documentary will show, step by step, how to select, process, store, distribute and propagate seeds – so that each of us can play our part in ensuring the survival of our seeds, now and for our children’s children. 

    Your support will help us towards covering the costs of producing this S.O.S. documentary. Money raised beyond this target will assist with promotion and distribution. We are fortunate to have received and continue to receive a tremendous amount of volunteer time and are fundraising only for the balance needed to fund the editing process.  

     

     

    According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation over 90% of our vegetable varieties have been lost over the last 100 years. With 95% of the seeds available for purchase in this country being imported from overseas, the diversity and availability of our daily food is endangered. So now our hope lies in community-scale seed saving systems to propogate and protect seed for future generations.  

    The Localising Food Project has captured dynamic video footage of inspirational models of seed swaps, seed exchanges, seed libraries, seed banks, and family seed businesses, in order to teach you how to easily replicate these processes in your community.

    This educational documentary will show, step by step, how to select, process, store, distribute and propagate seeds – so that each of us can play our part in ensuring the survival of our seeds, now and for our children’s children. 

    Your support will help us towards covering the costs of producing this S.O.S. documentary. Money raised beyond this target will assist with promotion and distribution. 

    About The Localising Food Project

    The Localising Food Project is an initiative of the Institute of Earthcare Education Aotearoa, a New Zealand registered charitable trust, whose objectives include Empowering Communities through Local Food Resilience. All work done to date has been achieved by the generosity of private donations and many thousands of voluntary hours of our dedicated team.

    Visit our website localisingfood.com to find out more about the project, view some of our short film stories and download our recently completed 'Growing Schools' documentary.

    Vsit our facebook page, sign up for our newsletter to stay in touch with our flourishing localising food community. Also please 'Like' and 'Share' our work and this campaign through your social media - many thanks!

     

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    Update from the LFP Team

    06/06/2016 at 12:43 PM


    Greetings to you our supportive pledgers


    This is a little update about the progress of our documentary and the delivery of your rewards…
    Robina has been working full-on with film editor Tiago Stamato Velasco (Brazilian filmmaker residing in NZ) on ‘SOS: Save Our Seeds’ before and since the completion of the campaign, and also Tiago has been filming four more action interviews to extend its cultural diversity and geographical representation. 

    We have several more weeks to go of film editing, sound editing (by Matt Aickin of Kerikeri) and the creation of original music for the documentary. 
    The main documentary will be approx 1 hour 20 minutes, and the sequel called ‘Hands-on Seed Saving’ will be around 15 minutes. 
    This will be a You-Tube mini-doco on the practicals of home seed saving, where views learn from a range of SOS presenters guiding them step by step how to select, process, store and share seed. 
    Robina will be editing this with Reece Baker (Green Lemon Pictures Ltd) from Kapiti Coast.
     
    We anticipate both docos to be ready for your download by the end of June, which is when we plan to get the rest of your rewards to you also. 

    For those of you who also pledged to ‘Growing Schools’, our documentary launched at the end of last year, you may be interested to know that there will be an article about it in the next issue of OrganicNZ, a magazine well worth subscribing to. 
    This will be our third article about the work of Localising Food Project in that magazine, with more to come. 
    As soon as your rewards are dispatched, we will be fundraising for our next doco (already partly completed), ‘Perennial Paradise’, previously titled ‘Fruit & Nuts Unlimited’, through an international crowd funding platform. 
    We will inform you when this is happening. 

    Wishing you a cosy Winter

    Robina McCurdy and the Localising Food Team

    Robina McCurdy

    You need to pledge to see this update.

      Ngarie Marriott Jones
      23/04/2016 at 9:58am

      "SOS"

      Elise Wach
      23/04/2016 at 9:38am

      "Thank you for doing this important work!"

      Joshua Tree
      22/04/2016 at 6:00pm
      Dawn
      22/04/2016 at 12:40pm
      tim newsham
      22/04/2016 at 11:44am
      Frances Dearnley
      22/04/2016 at 9:07am
      Chris Laing
      22/04/2016 at 8:31am
      Jan scown
      22/04/2016 at 7:15am
      Ruth Wood
      22/04/2016 at 7:06am
      Niva & Yotam Kay
      22/04/2016 at 6:52am

      "Yeah! Wonderful work!"

      Anonymous pledger
      22/04/2016 at 4:43am
      Rich Freedom
      22/04/2016 at 12:07am
      antony
      21/04/2016 at 9:38pm
      Dee Austring
      21/04/2016 at 8:41pm
      Kai
      21/04/2016 at 8:36pm

      "Massiv thanks to you Robina and everyone involved in doing this important work!"

      Julian Watts
      21/04/2016 at 8:08pm
      Victor MacGill
      21/04/2016 at 6:40pm
      Yana Hoos
      21/04/2016 at 6:29pm
      Rex Graveley
      21/04/2016 at 5:43pm

      "Robina, I think that this is a fantastic concept and I hope that you get all the funding that you need."

      Anonymous pledger
      21/04/2016 at 5:18pm
      Margaret Jefferies
      21/04/2016 at 5:09pm
      Floyd
      21/04/2016 at 5:01pm

      "Keep up the awesome energy Robina and team"

      Anonymous pledger
      21/04/2016 at 4:21pm
      Jayashrii
      21/04/2016 at 3:58pm
      Anonymous pledger
      21/04/2016 at 2:41pm
      Birgit Neumann
      21/04/2016 at 2:10pm
      Fred Engel
      21/04/2016 at 1:05pm

      "Good Luck Tejas"

      Paul van Wering
      21/04/2016 at 12:54pm
      Katherine Smith
      21/04/2016 at 12:08pm
      Gail Powell
      21/04/2016 at 10:29am

      Followers of 'S.O.S: Save Our Seeds' - a ‘hands-on’ documentary produced by the Localising Food Project

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