Each week I’m going to tip my red, straw summer fedora to AV projects I think are awesome. (And in the cooler months it is the tip of a knitted beanie.) This week it’s a hearty “hooray!” for the creative duo Dorothee and Mark at OrganicNation.TV.
Organic Nation Trailer from OrganicNation on Vimeo.
And it’s a good day too: American Express has just set them up with a “Do Something” grant, so they can keep trucking across “America’s sustainable food landscape.” What’s so great about Dorothee in all of her web producing power– she doesn’t wait to make sure her project/show/films are going to be picked up. She makes them with all the fury of a sure thing (paycheck) and the quality is always above and beyond for a girl with a laptop and handheld HD camera.
Organic Nation feels like a friendlier Design E2: The Economies of Being Environmentally Conscious, a PBS series that rolled out in 2006. (Sans the dark classical music score and apocalyptic color treatment coming out of post…) I say friendlier because Dorothee hosts the adventures with the charisma of the Dirty Jobs guy. One week she’s on a tractor in Central Illinois learning about pesticides, the next week she’s surrounded by tomato seedlings clad in muddy cowboy boots.
So take a gander if you will, and support the duo that’s telling you just where your tomato is coming from.
Carole! Thanks so much for this awesome write-up! I’m so excited by your new projects – can’t wait to stay tuned to this website in the future.
Dorothee and her team are an inspiration to us all. I’m going to try and get them to visit Spokane, and maybe broadcast their segments on our Community-Minded TV public access cable channel.