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What if eating organic food is really good for you? What if natural farming practices are not only good for you but also for the animals?

What if an egg from a free-range chicken actually tastes better than one from a factory farm? What if a mom found raw goat's milk cured her son's asthma and eliminated trips to the doctor's office?

What if South Carolina farmers were to become the darlings of a consumer-driven revolution? You've seen the bumper stickers encouraging you to ask for local shrimp. What if we started asking for local everything and instead of growing five percent of our food in South Carolina, we started growing 50 percent?

What if much of the energy used to truck food here from California and Florida was saved?

These are the questions being asked by South Carolina farmers, gardeners, cooks, and others involved in the slow cooking, natural farming, and grow-it-locally movement.

Organic, Local, and Sustainable Farming (Part 1)

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Casey Price with Pat and Doug on her organic farm

This edition of The Connection Independent Television introduces you to Lowcountry farmers, cooks, writers, tour guides, even a nutritionist, all of whom talk about the impact of eating locally grown food, supporting a humane environment for farm animals, and making the world safe for digestion.

Meet Celeste Albers and her chickens and her very pregnant cow. Watch Mark and Annie Filion's cow try to knock down our host, Pat Jobe, while Mark talks about the damaging effects of Walmart on the organic movement. Listen to the passionate stories of folks like Emile DeFelice, who is running for SC Commissioner of Agriculture. Visit the kitchen at FIG (Food Is Good), the downtown Charleston restaurant that aims to serve as much local and organic food as possible and throws in some jazz to boot.

Meet Amanda Dew Manning and her funny husband, Robert Manning, two Lowcountry publishers-writers-visionaries, who promote everything from the farmers market to Kennedy's Market and Bakery in their passion to get the culinary heritage of this area on the tongues of locals and visitors alike.

Also meet nutritionist Marti Chitwood and Mahwish McIntosh, a teacher who started a Slow Food Consortium in Charleston with her husband, Matt. And what about Casey Price, a tough mom with strict ideas about everything from raw milk to hot peppers?

And believe it or not, this week's show has much, much more on its plate. Are you hungry yet?

For more information or to volunteer with the Slow Food Convivium in Charleston, contact Mahwish McIntosh.

Click for the farmers' contact information