Good Grain

Imagine: Next door lives a hardworking organic farmer. Each summer you watch majestic fields of wheat mature from green to gold. And then the harvest.

At a new stone mill down the road, a miller grinds the farmer’s wheat into whole grain flour, sold just days old at the local market. At a small bakery on Main Street, a sourdough baker sells artisan loaves. At the corner pub, a craft brewer pours pints brewed with local ingredients.

It all tastes amazing.

Once upon a time, American communities were centered around their farmers, millers, and food artisans. GOOD GRAIN is the comeback story of the local grain movement, as found in New Jersey, the original Garden State.

Jared’s short and feature films explore a wide range of environmental subjects, with a focus on wildlife conservation and human sustainability.

Jared has been called “New Jersey’s leading environmental documentarian” by the NJ Society of Professional Journalists. In 2022, his film Pine Mud won the Mid-Atlantic Emmy Award for Documentary. His films have screened at festivals and on college campuses across the United States, with broadcasts on New Jersey PBS and Colorado PBS. Four of his documentaries are represented by the educational distributor Collective Eye Films.

Jared is a former editor of Edible Jersey magazine, and has contributed reporting to news outlets such as the New York Times Online and Wall Street Journal Online. He regularly creates multimedia content for the Princeton University Office of Sustainability.