According to the USDA, more than 38 million Americans, including 12 million children, are food insecure. With crop shortages, supply chain issues, and rising food costs, people are going hungry. The good news – is everyday Americans are hard at work growing a food secure future with sustainable farming and modern innovation.
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We visit Raleigh, North Carolina where a neighborhood food bank is getting down to the root causes of hunger, helping communities find long term solutions for a food secure future. Over at National Guard HQ in Charleston, West Virginia, Brigadier General William Crane explains why food security is national security, and how the military is using agriculture to strengthen local food chains and create jobs.
Way up in Juneau, Alaska a young married couple shows us their answer to food insecurity – Panhandle Produce, a local farm store providing fresh food for Alaskans otherwise at the mercy of weeks-long supply chains. Growing food locally, says Panhandle co-founder Kylie Wray, “is a matter of our survival and sustainability as a community.”
Down in Houston, Texas, they’re up against a similar challenge and they’ve arrived at a similar solution. “Hyper local!” says Luis Silva, lead engineer at Moonflower Farms, Houston’s first indoor vertical farm. “Fighting the weather here in Texas is the hardest. I think once we figure it out here, we can figure it out anywhere in the world. Now that we’re doing a controlled environment within the farm, it’s given us an opportunity to learn a lot of what the future is going to look like.”
All across the country, these farmers and innovators are proving that the future of food doesn’t have to include hunger at all.
EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS
00:00 Hunger in America
01:07 Inter-Faith Food Shuttle’s Mission to End Hunger
01:28 Why Local Food Banks Matter
03:12 West Virginia National Guard Teaches Veterans to Farm
04:28 Food Security is National Security
07:32 Alaska Imports Majority of Its Food
08:15 Growing Food in Alaska
09:14 Hyperlocal Hydroponics in Houston
09:53 Long Food Supply Chains Cause Waste
10:13 Importing Food Means Less Nutrition
10:36 Improving Nutrition in School Lunches
11:05 How to Grow Food in Extreme Weather
11:32 Dream to Be an Air Force Pilot
12:05 The Reasons We Serve
12:27 Stigma of Hunger in America
13:02 Meeting Needs with Hope and Action
13:38 Using Agriculture to Eradicate Hunger
Produced by Consensus Digital Media in partnership with Remedial Media
Directed by Eric Feigenbaum and Jessie English
Created by Conor Gaughan and Kate Tucker
Written by Kate Tucker
Executive Producer – Kate Tucker
Executive Producer – Jessie English
Executive Producer – Eric Feigenbaum
Executive Producer – Conor Gaughan
Featuring in order of appearance:
L. Ron Pringle – President & CEO, Inter-Faith Food Shuttle
Melissa Stewart – Director of Patriot Guardens, West Virginia Military Authority
Brigadier General William Crane – The Adjutant General, West Virginia National Guard
Cindy Bailey – Director of Economic Development. West Virginia Military Authority
Senior Master Sergeant David Whanger – C130 Avionics Section Supervisor, West Virginia Air National Guard
Eli & Kylie Wray – Founders & Owners, Panhandle Produce & Windfall Farm
Federico Marques – Founder & CEO, Moonflower Farms
Luis Silva – Lead Engineer, Moonflower Farms
Jose Garcia – Operations Manager, Moonflower Farms
Rahul Vijayan – Founder & CEO, Farm to Tray
Filmed in Raleigh, North Carolina; Charleston and Muddlety, West Virginia; Juneau, Alaska; and Houston, Texas.
Special thanks to Major Holli R. Nelson, Director of Strategic Communications and Governmental Affairs for Joint Forces Headquarters West Virginia National Guard and Commander of the 130th Force Support Squadron. Thanks also to the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service, the Library of Congress, the West Virginia Military Authority, and to Greentown Labs.
Supervising Producer – Geoff Rock
Editor – Jack Mankiewicz
Assistant Editors – Angaelica LaPasta, Dustin Waldman, Andie McMahon, David Connolly
Director of Photography – Isaac Rosenthal
Camera Operator – Eddie Bernard
Gaffer / Drone Operator – Fletcher Anstis
Sound Engineer – Tom Eichler
Production Coordinator – John Ryan Gage
Production Assistant West Virginia: Justin Stebbins
Audio Mixer – Dillon Terry
Color Grading – Ind3x
Motion Graphics – Yuriy Netrebyuk
Music courtesy of Artlist & Soundstripe
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