BACK TO EDEN Press
AWARENESS FILM FESTIVAL
Los Angeles, CA
2012
Awareness Film Festival
Back to Eden Film was an official selection of the 2012 Awareness Festival! The screening took place at the Healthy Living Center in Los Angeles, CA on Sunday, May 6th. The mission of the Awareness Film & Arts Festival is to bring awareness and to open eyes to some of our world’s pressing issues. The category we were selected to feature in was the “Green!” category. Back to Eden Film is a documentary that focuses on simple, sustainable, solutions to environmental and ecological issues facing conventional agriculture.
THE ECOLOGY OF FOOD: Past, Present, Future
SUNY (State University of New York), Geneseo
October 3 - December 5, 2012
The Ecology of Food
The Ecology of Food
Food is central to all life and is manifested in diverse realms of human experience
including religion, politics, economics, gender, science, health and art. The exhibition
The Ecology of Food: Past, Present, Future seeks to explore the many ways the world’s food supply has been impacted by natural changes and disasters, global warming, human actions, public policy and genetic engineering. These are just several areas that can be referenced in this college-wide project that will engage participants from chemistry, anthropology, biochemistry, sociology, organic gardening, food disorders, and nutrition.

The Ecology of Food: Past, Present, Future features artists whose practice concerns
food and social justice; food and family; the social aspects of sharing food; the food
industrial complex; hunger; climate change and its affect on farming; genetic
engineering; food and religion; food economics; and food as it relates to gender, health, biology and medicine. The Ecology of Food: Past, Present, Future is a semester long exhibit. Back to Eden Film was selected to screen on November 28, 2012. www.geneseo.edu/galleries/current_lederer
PLACES OF REFUGE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Joseph International, Kansas City, KS
August 2012
Plaves of Refuge
In times of difficulty, God has promised that He will establish "pockets of mercy" as
spiritual and natural oasis, like Goshen during the days of Joseph. The people of
Goshen experienced growth and multiplication from the Lord on all they possessed;
their land was called "the best" in all of Egypt. These regions are ones that drip with
the abundance of the Lord and are fruitfully blessed in all manners of life. These oasis therefore become places where natural crops flow. Back to Eden Film is one of many resources God has provided to help establish places of refuge, overflowing with abundance, similar to the land of Goshen.

These tips, resources, and strategic tools were collected from the Farming and
Agriculture workshop at the Places of Refuge Conference. The Farming and Agriculture Strategy Plan includes “Keys to Building a Back to Eden Style Garden.” blog.josephinternational.org/tag/back-to-eden-film
AMERICAN SURVIVAL NEWSLETTER
August 2012
Paul Gautschi, a master arborist and world-famous organic gardener, has discovered a secret to gardening... "Go out to where nature has not been disturbed, look at what it is doing and copy it!” This is what Paul did 32 year ago in his orchard and has been reaping the bountiful harvest ever since.

Located on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington, Paul’s home garden and orchard is covered with wood chips. Why? When Paul walked into nature, in his case the forest, he found needles, leaves and branches that had fallen from trees which were decomposing to create the most beautiful, moist, rich top-soil. The epiphany for Paul was that nature was sustaining itself without any work! Here Paul was “slaving” trying to maintain his orchard and garden while in nature everything was taking care of itself. Conventionally, most gardeners and farmers are experiencing labor intensive, complex, and costly (environmentally and economically) methods of food production. Some of the vital issues facing agriculture today include soil preparation, fertilization, irrigation, weed control, pest control, crop rotation, and PH issues. None of these issues exist in the unaltered state of nature or in Paul’s gardens and orchards. As Paul states, “It’s all about the covering.”

In 2011, the full feature documentary, Back to Eden Film, was produced to share Paul’s journey, walking with God and learning how to get back to the simple, productive methods of sustainable provision that were given to man in the garden of Eden. The film is broken into chapters that address how Paul’s methods are void of the issues facing conventional agriculture in America. Paul doesn’t till, fertilize, water, spray, rotate, or mix soil and you don’t need to either!

Watching drought records reach all time highs this summer, the evidence is clear that the water-saving benefit of the methods shared in Back to Eden Film are in high demand! We have received far more desperate emails from gardeners in the mid-West than we have from the rest of the United States. As Fall approaches, we recommend everyone, with or without gardening or farming experience, to follow these simple steps to creating a sustainable organic garden and orchard:

1. Get Connected to Creation
2. Get “The Covering”
3. Apply “The Covering”

The best “covering” material for your garden is whatever is local, organic and readily available to you. For example, leaves, grass, straw, manure and even rocks provide the same benefits Paul experiences with wood chips. A woman in South Africa went into nature and found that sugar cane bark was the best resource for her to use. Further detailed information regarding how to implement a Back to Eden gardening can be accessed at www.backtoedenfilm.com/how_to

Dana Richardson & Sarah Zentz, Producers and Directors of Back to Eden Film, will be submitting articles to feature in the American Survival Newsletter on a quarterly basis. Subscribe to receive the free newsletter here: www.thepowerherbs.com/Books-And-Newsletters/American-Survival-Newsletter-Health-Finance.html

 

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