Today I got pretty close to finishing my second video which contains footage at the Athens community gardens. Using Final Cut is getting easier but it's still a process. I definitely need to work on the sound because Cait's interview is almost indecipherable over the wind's howl.

I'm doing basic research on local food and gardening and am thinking of doing a vocab list for those of us who don't know a lot about the subject matter. Today's word is:


Food Miles


"Food Miles" refer to the distance that your food has been transported between its source farm and where you buy it. Food miles are one measure of the amount of energy used to transport your food and the consequent pollutants released by that transport. Estimates vary but transport may account for 20% or more of the total energy use associated with the provision of a given food item. As such, Food Miles are a relatively simple statistic that can be used to demonstrate the ecological importance of local foods.

--from revivevictorygarden.org