The California Rural Community Story Project and Video Web has great new video online.
The California Rural Community Story Project brings together rural youth, experienced Farmers and community leaders from 10 communities. The project is focused on the daily life of families who work on small farms and ranches in the tri-counties area of San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties.
The Video Project is a new way to tell the Local History of our Rural Communities through a focus on working farm families.
Participating in the videos so far this year have been:
• The San Marcos Honey Farm in Buellton.
• Quailspings Permaculture teaching center and farm in New Cuyama.
• The Rio Gozo Farm and Permaculture Center in Ojai.
• The Orella Ranch in Gaviota, (a 5th generation ranch that now practices sustainable agriculture and Permaculture).
• The Growing Ground Farm in Santa Maria.
• The Filkins Ranch in Santa Paula.
• The City of Guadalupe, (with a special interview with the Mayor).
• Buttonwood Farm in Santa Ynez.
• The Santa Barbara Permaculture Network Farm in Santa Barbara.
All together we have created over 40 hours of video on local farming history.
New in the Fall of 2009 will be interviews with Buellton's oldest Chimney Sweep, a Santa Ynez 4th generation Alfalfa farmer, a Solvang Banker who specializes in work with small Farms, and a special series documenting 3 migrant farm families who have worked in the Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo County area for 15 years.
Visit the CA Rural Story Video web often. We add new videos every week.
Here is some history of the project:
The Rural Community Story Project is designed to provide the tools and motivation to help youth to become involved and take pride in their local communities and farms and at the same time gather new local history that will add to the understanding of rural California life.
The Project encourages students to see agriculture, especially local farming, as a career goal that has a real future.
My Future / Mi Futuro works to create a new multi-media literature which will help re-weave traditional local values which have kept rural families working together for generations.
Our goal is to help build Rural social and economic sustainability through a new understanding of local history.
The project encourages rural youth to recognize that there are important family models and profitable farming models, which do not require migration to urban employment.
The Project leverages new information and video technologies to develop an online documentary about the families, rural communities, farmers and farm workers. The stories, agricultural skills, and community history we explore through the Rural California Story Project build pride in the essential role their families have played in building rural agricultural economies. Economies which are central to the American way of life.
The California Rural Story Project is Produced by Visible Light Distance Learning Network. Founded in 1991, Visible Light has received a Smithsonian Institution Technology Innovation award for work with community schools and 5 USDA distance learning grants for work with rural communities in California and the Southwest.
The goal of the Visible Light Network is to bring youth education, rural development, and sustainable agricultural resources and opportunities together through innovative use of new technologies and learning projects designed for rural youth, families and seniors.
Many American small farmers and farm workers are seeing their children turn away from the tradition of working the land in search of urban education and employment. The California Rural Community Story project unites youth and families in a local history story project that reminds all of us of the values of rural life and lets us learn the story behind the successes that have created one of the most valuable parts of American History, the American small farmer, rural life and rural communities which have shaped the American Story.
Send us your comments on the videos and let us know what you would like to see!
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