FOOD FORWARD

Compelling stories illuminate viable alternatives to our industrial food system and its social and environmental impacts. Viewers meet food rebels across America who are striving to create a more just, sustainable, and delicious alternative to what we eat and how we produce it. Episodes (each about 25 minutes) each focus on a theme, in this first season addressing urban farming, sustainable fishing and aquaculture, a return to traditional cattle raising, a dairy renaissance, hunting and foraging for "wild food," rethinking school lunches, reclaiming wasted food, soil enrichment, seed banks, water conservation, food technology innovations, reversing the psychology of consumer habits, the food revolution’s opportunities for "food justice," and a history of food and agriculture in America. Grades 5 and up. English with English subtitles. Color. PBS. Total time: 390 minutes. ©2015.