Taste of the LandA film screening and food workshop about our physical and spiritual connection to the places we call home and the land we live on



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What elements of your landscape
can you sense within food grown on the land you live on:
sunlight, the color and texture of the soil, perhaps the salt of the ocean? 

Reflect on your own sensory experiences of a place you feel deeply connected with. Think about the food you’ve eaten there, the fragrances and sounds present there, and how your body feels in that place. How would you describe the “taste” of this landscape? How did these experiences deepen your understanding of it? 
       Embodied Earth and I co-hosted the film screening of Taste of the Land and food workshop where we explored the “land-tastes” of New York City with locally grown food. The produced was sourced from Edgemere Farms in Farm Rockaway and GrowNYC in Prospect Park. 

        The Taste of Land film by Emmy- and Peabody-nominated filmmakers Adam Loften and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee presented by Emergence Magazine follows Cambodian-American filmmaker Kalyanee Mam who feels a stark dissonance between her physical and spiritual home that elicits a crisis of identity and belonging. Taste of Land documents Kalyanee’s quest for an embodied knowledge of place through sharing the stories of those living in kinship with the land and the ancestral connection to the water, soil, plants, and forests. 





A special thanks to Edgemere Farm in Rockaway, Queens for growing the fruits and vegetables, Emergence Magazine for presenting the film Taste of the Land from the Shifting Landscape series, Erf World Art Studio for hosting, and Nicole from Embodied Earth for co-hosting this workshop.


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