A cow that escapes the chopping block in a meat processing plant seeks revenge on the evil corporate clown!

Off the coast of Senegal and under the thickness of night both Senegalese and European fishermen ready themselves for the big catch. They have one goal in mind but two different techniques in trying to accomplish their task. The Europeans use the latest technological devices to reap the wealth of the sea for European markets, while Senegalese fishermen use traditional nets to catch what remains - to nourish 600,000 of their people.

With radars and GPS the Europeans can fish for two months with no interruption. The Senegalese fishermen try to detect fish stocks by water movements, moon reflection on fish scales and using special amulets provided by spiritual guides from their villages. Whichever technique becomes more successful than the other, will only result in dire consequences; it’s just a matter of time!

Wine growers and pest birds are at war in the Marlborough Vineyards of New Zealand. It is a losing battle, except for one possibility. Can the New Zealand Falcon save the grapes? Fledgling Expectations reveals the efforts of two young falcon sisters taking part in an unusual project.

“I eat food every day. I don’t know where it comes from or how it’s made.”

Most of us don't think twice about the chemicals being sprayed on our food, but the Hoffmann family does. Through a personal visual diary of his experience on a community farm, filmmaker Richard Hoffmann examines the natural practice of food production. Using a digital still camera, Richard took roughly 20,000 pictures of vegetables and herbs, insect life, and human activity on the farm with the hope of staying connected to the food he and his family eat. Fridays at the Farm is a cinematic portrait of organic community farming and the enrichment of life for all those who participate in such practice.

Red ripe tomatoes, fresh green basil and sweet bell peppers can all be found growing in the historic Toronto neighborhood of Little Italy. A rich assortment of produce provides for generations of families, as these gardens quietly humanize the populous urban landscape. The diversity of food grown in the gardens of little Italy mirror the diverse communities of people who have immigrated from other countries and have settled into the area. To many, these gardens grow the roots that help sustain ones culture, land and community.

Told as a romance gone bad, this short documentary reveals some of the sour secrets beneath the skin of popular tropical fruit.

With the onset of peak oil looming over the world as a spectre, a crucial conversation has begun, to seek solutions for coping with depleting levels of oil. We can learn lessons from the only country to have survived such a peak oil crisis: Cuba.

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990 drew Cuba into an economic catastrophe. Overnight, the country lost more than half of its oil imports and 80 percent of its food capacity. Against all odds, the country coped remarkably well by creating a sustainable local economy focusing largely on organic agricultural methods while preserving Cuba’s socialist ideals.

Some call it poison others hail it as environmentally friendly. Who’s telling us the truth about Fertile Residual Material (FRM) aka sludge and who’s lying? The foods that we eat are mostly produced on land fertilized by digester sludge containing dangerous substances. The consequences have been disastrous so far and most feel that governments need to ban its usage instead of regulating it.

The continued use of sewage sludge in agriculture and regulating its use to prevent harmful effects on soil, vegetation, animals and man - is an ongoing debate.

Reinhold and his fellow sheep-breeding colleagues do shift work in the city, with the rest of their waking hours spent tending meticulously to their beloved Valais Blacknose sheep. The sheep of the Swiss Alps are not bred for their wool, nor for their meat, but rather for their good looks that bring pride and prestige to their owners. The obsession is lost on the wives and children of the sheep farmers; they are perplexed with this labour of love. A sensitive and charming tale about the strong affections between a farmer, his sheep and a vanishing way of life.

Stig-Anders is considered an anomaly by his neighbors and those who know him. With his horses as his main companions, he lives alone on a farm in the southern forests of Sweden, with little connection to the modern world. He romanticizes the past and refuses to give up his old way of life. The horseman falls on hard times when a furious storm hits his beloved forest, causing him to be hospitalized. Away from his farm he has little reason to live, until a friend from the past helps him find his way home. A beautifully shot and intimate portrait study of one mans relationship to the land, and to the past which he refuses to leave behind.

During the summer of 2006, chef Michael Stadtlander journeyed on his biodiesel/solar powered kitchen bus, The Liberator, with his family and a group of apprentices from his farm in Ontario heading west to Vancouver, Quadra and Cortes Islands, in British Columbia. He was returning to the province that nurtured and inspired his early days as a chef in Canada. In each locale he encounters artists, farmers, oyster cultivators, environmentalists and loggers dedicated to environmentally sustainable business practices and the bounty of their islands. In plein-air dinners made with locally raised and foraged ingredients he lavishes his local guests with the delectable creations of his edible art. You will wish you were there.