Inspiring and rich, Ingredients unearths the roots of the local food movement and digs into the stories of the world-class chefs, sustainability-minded farmers and impassioned activists transforming our broken food system.

This documentary covers the benefits of sourcing your food locally and tries to squash (pun intended) the notion that you cannot feed yourself or your family with the majority of your food being grown locally. They discuss the fact that local food can often be more expensive, but they also discuss ways that this might improve in the future or ways that you can reduce that pocket bite. The use of farmers markets is encouraged for the majority of the diet and shows how not only families, but restaurants and food banks are able to feed their patrons with local food.

The documentary is centered around Portland, Oregon, but has interviews and features from New York, Ohio, and other places around the US. While the Pacific Northwest is known for it’s abundance of food production, the theories presented here can be applied to almost any spot in the United States, and probably several other countries. The format is divided into seasons and discusses the products grown with the farmers during each season, what the farmers do during this time, and then moves on to speak with their consumers about how they use the product they’ve received.

Beautifully shot documentary with tons of regular folks talking about their love of food and how they hope to make the growing / supplying / eating cycle a more efficient and local system.