2011 Workshop Series #1 – Film Screening of “King Corn”

Come and join us for our first workshop series of the 2011 growing season: a film screening of the movie King Corn. It promises to be a great event and chance to learn more about the ever growing food movement.

Event Details:
Metro Hall, Room 308
55 John St
Toronto, ON

Thursday May 12, 2011, 7pm-9pm

Seating is limited. Please RSVP to Noelle or on our facebook page 

About the Film (from the King Corn website ):

King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat-and how we farm.

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If you are interested in learning how to prep your garden for planting, want to meet cool people, and/or want to buff-up your biceps, join us for a day or the weekend! Contact for details.