This has been an incredibly busy month. It started with the New England Film and Video festival and culminated with my first shoot with the folks from Farmer's Almanac TV. All at the same time as finishing our movie Public Enemy: Welcome to the Terrordome, which will have it's World Premiere at AFI fest on November 7th. I hope to see all of my LA friends at the screening, it will be a lot of fun. Join me "on the red carpet" and let's party! We are in the International Competition, here is the link:
I was so nervous about working with the folks at Farmer's Almanac TV, after all it is my national televsion debut, but it turned out to be just great. We are such like minded folks, and their vision helped make an incredible and productive shooting experience. Check out my article on it below.
On a sadder note, my neighbor Jim Gallagher passed away this week, after a long illness. I had known him since college, he was a librarian at my film school, and later when we lived next to each other we shared cat's and plants and stuff. A wonderful man who I will miss deeply. This summer he came to the farmstand and we got to hang out which was just great. He and my rabbit Jim(no relation) both passed away in the same week, it has been sad.
Please keep forwarding my email along and encourage your friends to sign up for my newsletter at my website. I had to neglect it's development this month, but we should actually get it up and running soon.
Farmer's Almanac TV
Help me out folks, I'm heading to national broadcast television! I am trying to
make Sustainable Living fasionable and trust me we have a long way to go. Most
people don't know what it means to be sustainable. So please go to www.farmersalmanac.com,
there you will see my first video "Who is Patti", click on it and leave a comment,
rate it and forward it to your friends. I know you folks have seen it already,
but it helps boost it's rating with the search engines if people link it and post
it around far and wide. If you have a website or blog please take the embed code
and paste it on your sites (if you like it of course). Every bit makes a difference,
this is the begining of helping expand America's mindset for the benifit of the
planet for generations.
All together we did thirteen segments from cooking to carpentry. We shot a really well rounded sample of great Urban Sustainable Living projects. Including this great bird house here.
Below, the great Mickey Youmans contemplates the shot, while Renee Bishop and I work on the scripts.
Here I am in the workshop building a window box.
We planted trees. I think I have now planted a hundred trees!
And we even did a bunch of cooking! My tin ceiling is cool too.
These segments will probably go on air in April. Farmer's Almanac TV is available in 90 million homes, nation wide, which means everyone should be able to see it on their PBS affiliate. So now the next struggle of finding sponsers begins. PBS has no money, so sponsership is critical, so if anyone knows anyone who may be interested in sponsering my national debut send me an email or forward them my stuff. Either way check out their great website www.farmersalmanac.com, the forum there is going to be a hotbed for sustainable thinking.
It is such an honor to work with these folks, their passion for the work is so refreshing: Mickey, Renee, and Billy thank you for bringing me along for the ride.
I hope to start blogging on their website and answering questions on their message boards soon. Don't forget, help me get that first video out to as many people as possible.
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Please continue to share my videos and website with everyone. Thank you all again, from the sustainable home front. And don't forget it all started in a garden...
Besos(kisses),
Patti Moreno, the Garden Girl
Dear Patricia,
Dear Patricia,
Okay. Where do I begin? Well the first eight videos are now ready. I plan on letting Farmers Almanac TV put them on their site first since they are way farther along than I am. Speaking of websites, mine is coming together. Here is a link, I would love your feedback on it so far.
This is still in development, and a huge job considering all the video and content that has to go into it. Check out the Garden Girl Tv sneak preview in this issue as well.
On the local Highland Park front, I would like to lend my support to the Food Project folks. I think that we should welcome them into our community and help them becoming a meaning full part of Highland Park. Check out my local article for more info on my dreams for our neighborhood.
The latest FilmShack Production(The company my Husband and I run): Public Enemy: Welcome to the Terrordome, will have it's world premiere at AFI Fest 2007! For those that don't know, that is a very big deal for us. Check out this link, we are finally on the same page as Robert Redford and Tom Cruise. Here is the link
Thank you all for forwarding my link and newsletter along. Please keep it up, I still need everybody's help.
Garden Girl TV Preview
Here are a some links from the new webseason. What is cool, for me at least, is
that you can see we now know what we're doing! I just love my new graphic intro,
produced by the good folks at Farmers Almanac TV.
Here is Who is Patti: The stills of me during my pregnancy show you how far I have truly come!
Urban Sustainable Living, is my intro video. This one was hard because it is such a big subject to condence into two minutes, but I have lots more to come.
Kifo the Garden Gnome: Personally I think this is funny. I hope you like it as well. It doesn't have anything to do with Sustainable living(a little bit), but Kifo is great.
I'll sneak you all a bunch of new videos in the next newsletter as well! I love this pic of me and the
The Food Project
The Food Project (www.thefoodproject.org)
wants to expand their local farming into our neighborhood Highland Park. Specifically
they want to work land around the Hawthorn Youth and Community Center run magnificently
by the tireless Sam Sadd. My family has supported the HYCC forever and we believe
in their leadership.
Some want to turn it into a playground, others want it to remain open space. My personal opinion is we have enough parks, and ultimately they need to be actively policed to be maintained. I remember during the mid 1990's when we had to "clean out" Cedar Square Park. (My house was firebombed by Drug Dealers, in the process) It was a painful experience in neighborhood improvement. At my old office on Roxbury Street we had to lock the park to keep the Heroin users out. So trust me I have some experience with this.
My dream is to make Highland Park the local food production center for the rest of the city. It will raise all of our property values and our quality of life. The Food Project's education mission should blend in perfectly with HYCC. What better way to preserve open space, then with gardens and orchard space? Preserving Open Space while having that space give back to the community and the children of our community is a rarity in Urban Centers. Highland Park is one of the areas in our city that could actually be a model for Urban Sustainability world wide. We have huge tracts of vacant land that are currently used as dumping grounds. Highland Park up until the 1970's was still a Farming Community. My old neighbors, John and Wendy, still had Chickens when I moved in the 1990's. Charlie on Hawthorne street remembers all sorts of agriculture here, ask him if you don't believe me.
These segments will probably go on air in April. Farmer's Almanac TV is available in 90 million homes, nation wide, which means everyone should be able to see it on their PBS affiliate. So now the next struggle of finding sponsers begins. PBS has no money, so sponsership is critical, so if anyone knows anyone who may be interested in sponsering my national debut send me an email or forward them my stuff. Either way check out their great website 
Okay. Where do I begin? Well the first eight videos are now ready. I plan on letting Farmers Almanac TV put them on their site first since they are way farther along than I am. Speaking of websites, mine is coming together. 
