URBAN ROOTS
Director Mark MacInnis

Film Night, 7:00pm. May 8, 2012
River Park Church Auditorium
3818 -14A St. SW, Calgary

Urban Roots follows the urban farming phenomenon in Detroit. Urban Roots is a timely, moving and inspiring film that speaks to a nation grappling with collapsed industrial towns and the need to forge a sustainable and prosperous future. Urban farming provides a way in which individuals can take control over something so critical as food that in the very act of growing it, they not only feed themselves, they also become healthier, more self-reliant and in some cases they become entrepreneurs. And most remarkable, they create a new approach to community, the economy and life overall. 93 min

Conversation Leader: Rod Olson of Leaf and Lyre Urban Farms

Rod is father to two beautiful girls and is a farm boy from the Camrose area. He is a (semi-)professional chorister with a background in theology, who loves to garden, bake breads, and have conversation over coffee. His special passions are beauty and paradox and the depths of the human experience. His particular interests in farming have to do with the nurturing of vital nutrient dense soils and with bringing life to our living spaces.

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