Today we ventured to Cedar Rapids for the 13th annual Iowa Network for Community Agriculture annual meeting. The morning’s speaker was tangerine farmer and film-maker Lisa Brenneis from Ojai, California. You may ask, what is a California farmer doing in Iowa talking at a local food conference? Quite simply, if you followed yesterday’s blog entry – she was taking us down a different road.
Her film “Eat at Bills” profiles the wildly successful Montery Produce Market – a kind of market that currently does not exist in Iowa. It was her job to stretch our understanding how local foods could be offered to eaters.
Here’s Lisa showing off some of the just-picked Mandarin Oranges from her orchard. We got to take some home to share with the kids! What a treat in February.
