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In this episode of CLR, join Tasha Simms as she speaks with filmmaker Suzanne Crocker about her VIFF film “First We Eat”. Living just 300 km from the Arctic Circle, she removes absolutely all grocery store food from her house, putting food security to the test in the far North of Canada. Suzanne Crocker is a director and cinematographer, known for All the Time in the World (2014), Time Lines (2010) and Grimm Reality (2010).
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For one year, she feeds her family of five, only food that can be hunted, fished, gathered, grown or raised around Dawson City, Yukon.
Add three skeptical teenagers, one reluctant husband, no salt, no caffeine, no sugar and -40 temperatures.
Ultimately the story becomes a celebration of community and the surprising bounty of food that even a tiny community in the far North can provide.
First We Eat celebrates the ingenuity, resourcefulness & knowledge of Northern Canadians and our relationship to the land through the food that we hunt, fish, gather, grow and raise in the North.
Whether you are concerned with community (knowing where your food comes from and valuing the land and the people who produce it), sustainability, the nutritional value of your food, a finite oil supply, carbon footprint or food costs and accessibility – food security is a topic of interest for many of us.
Eating 100% local is, of course, entirely possible. A diet of wild meat, fish, berries, roots, and wild plants was the norm for thousands of years. Suzanne wanted to explore the extent of the possibilities if we combine wild foods with food that Northerners have been able to cultivate, raise, overwinter and breed.
The kitchen was not Suzanne’s ‘natural habitat’ and she was not a master gardener. Far from being an expert, Suzanne considered herself more of a ‘blank page’. By collaborating with northern expertise, traditional knowledge and local producers, Suzanne hoped she would succeed.
https://firstweeat.ca/
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