Project Possibilities

The two Discourses I am interested in researching are Local Food culture and Brentwood.

Local Food is a pretty recent movement that has turned into its own subculture, focusing on farm to table foods. The awareness of where our food comes from has become a hot topic and more and more people are investing in their local farms.  Some people have gone so far as to only eating local and not using any goods that are from more than 100 miles away.  This would be a fascinating area to study and would love to hear from the many sources.  There are quite a few books and blogs that talk about eating local, though many of them are based from the West Coast.  I also think that it would be interesting to interview farmers in this region to hear about their business and how the sudden interest in supporting local economy has effected them.  It is a bit ironic because in most regions in Europe, it is normal for them to eat all or mostly local food where in America it has become sort of a privilege.  Maybe I could touch on the socioeconomic factors of eating local and how programs such as Edible Schoolyards are incorporating it into schools.

My second possibility is researching about Brentwood, Tn.  It is the suburb of Nashville that I grew up in.  It always fascinated and irritated me the sort of standards that are present here.  The people here tend to focus equally on wealth and religion, Christianity to be specific.  It is the land of designer bags and the newest SUV's, but there is a strict undertone of attending church and being religious.  The two just don't really seem to fit hand and hand, but this is what Brentwood is about.  As far as being able to access and find resources I think it would be pretty easy since I lived there and my parents still live there and I went to high school there.