The beginning part was shot in Yakima Valley in Washington and the rest was a collage from the SF Bay Area.

The audio was captured in-camera, a Canon 5D Mark II. It's not an ideal set-up but considering that it was in-camera, it's pretty impressive despite its noise.

I just applied for a grant to do a documentary on foraging in the SF Bay Area -- this was just a mix of stories somewhat randomly thrown together because I liked one particular item. There were some production costs to my choices but I'm tolerant of these because for one, this was just for "fun" but also because I have a "why not?" type of attitude about things.

My roots are somewhat scrappy and while I truly appreciate high quality productions, I also have a soft spot for rough, scrappy things.

The shots from Washington state were part of a news video workshop I attended sponsored by the Yakima Herald-Republic. It was a great experience and I'd never attended one of these deals before.

Canon loaned cameras out and there were some great instructors who taught us some cool tricks.

The story I was assigned was on the gleaning efforts by Northwest Harvest, a nonprofit hunger relief agency.

I ended up at a couple shelters where they deliver food to and did a short piece titled "Tree to Table" which is the first part of this with some deletions/changes.

It got me thinking about farming practices and agrarian culture and more but I won't go into it since it's sort of depressing.

It made me consider how far we've gone from our agrarian roots and wonder what effects on our socialization might be impacted. There are so many current rituals based on agrarian principals. Probably not new to many, but for me, it had me wondering what we lost by making that switch.

Consider all the community based activities surrounding harvests and farming, etc. We don't exist in constructs that require us to come together as a community out of necessity as agrarian cultures do, yes?

The beginning part was shot in Yakima Valley in Washington and the rest was a collage from the SF Bay Area.

The audio was captured in-camera, a Canon 5D Mark II. It's not an ideal set-up but considering that it was in-camera, it's pretty impressive despite its noise.

I just applied for a grant to do a documentary on foraging in the SF Bay Area -- this was just a mix of stories somewhat randomly thrown together because I liked one particular item. There were some production costs to my choices but I'm tolerant of these because for one, this was just for "fun" but also because I have a "why not?" type of attitude about things.

My roots are somewhat scrappy and while I truly appreciate high quality productions, I also have a soft spot for rough, scrappy things.

The shots from Washington state were part of a news video workshop I attended sponsored by the Yakima Herald-Republic. It was a great experience and I'd never attended one of these deals before.

Canon loaned cameras out and there were some great instructors who taught us some cool tricks.

The story I was assigned was on the gleaning efforts by Northwest Harvest, a nonprofit hunger relief agency.

I ended up at a couple shelters where they deliver food to and did a short piece titled "Tree to Table" which is the first part of this with some deletions/changes.

It got me thinking about farming practices and agrarian culture and more but I won't go into it since it's sort of depressing.

It made me consider how far we've gone from our agrarian roots and wonder what effects on our socialization might be impacted. There are so many current rituals based on agrarian principals. Probably not new to many, but for me, it had me wondering what we lost by making that switch.

Consider all the community based activities surrounding harvests and farming, etc. We don't exist in constructs that require us to come together as a community out of necessity as agrarian cultures do, yes?