http://csavideo.gatheringblogs.org Talkin' Bout Making Culture: Community Supported Agriculture in Michigan Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:22:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Never before has a night at the movies been this corny and this delicious. Join us in Traverse City on Monday, March 31st for a very special event. Great Lakes BIONEERS presents the documentary film, King Corn from Mosaic Films Inc., at the Traverse City State Theatre on Monday, March 31 ... http://csavideo.gatheringblogs.org/2008/03/10/priemere-viewing-locavore-hors-doeuvres-challenge/ ...5 minute version.... http://csavideo.gatheringblogs.org/2007/11/18/trailer-talkin-bout-making-culture-community-supported-agriculture-in-michigan/ It has now been over a month since I've done any serious video editing work. The big spring planting push has pretty much come to a close, and plants in the ground are growing well (now that they have drip irrigation on them!). The days are getting hotter, ... http://csavideo.gatheringblogs.org/2007/06/11/reflections/ The rapidly approaching farming/growing season has been pulling my attention away from the video project and to new (used) tractors, new gardens, and new leeks that need to be transplanted. Yes, even after visiting 31 CSA farms last season, we are still excited and committed to starting a CSA ... http://csavideo.gatheringblogs.org/2007/04/26/a-rainy-spring-day/ Big thanks to Dustin Edwards for helping us crank out this fun music video. All of the video footage is from our bike tour. It gives a taste of the great footage we have to work with for the documentary project. Download Talkin' CSA Blues what do you think? http://csavideo.gatheringblogs.org/2007/04/11/the-teasertalkin-csa-blues-music-video/ here's a quick glance at some of the amazing CSA farmers that we visited on our tour... http://csavideo.gatheringblogs.org/2007/04/11/meet-the-cast/ Nothing gives you an appreciation for other people's skills like diving headlong into a project for which you have no training...my hat goes off to all of the moviemakers and video editors out there. We are crawling through the process of converting 60+ hours of raw video footage into ... http://csavideo.gatheringblogs.org/2007/03/29/video-editing-101-the-self-taught-version/ Our intention is to produce an educational documentary video package with footage from the bicycle trip, in order to further build the CSA movement in Michigan and the Midwest. At this early stage in production, a number of video projects have been identified. These projects will be bundled ... http://csavideo.gatheringblogs.org/2007/03/29/the-project/ Don't you sometimes wonder where those production names that you see in the credits of films come from? I certainly do. Ours is simple: Turtle Spring was the name of the organic farm (and CSA for one season) that I started and managed on family land in ... http://csavideo.gatheringblogs.org/2007/03/16/tsp/