Allen Garr, beekeeper and journalist, with some of his 60,000 plus bees on the six acres “living roof” of the Vancouver Convention Centre. Photograph by Brian Harris.

The Museum of Vancouver (MOV) explores Vancouver’s growing passion for local sustainable food with Home Grown, a new exhibit of 39 large-scale Brian Harris photographs opening August 26, 2010. The exhibit uses these huge images of Vancouver’s “urban agriculture” as both artistic expression and to educate the viewer about the local farming happening all around us (that we may not know about), from the beekeepers atop the Vancouver Convention Centre to inner city gardeners.

MOV has lots of activities and events planned around Home Grown, including talks and tours with growers, activists and chefs, family workshops, and the Food and Beers Speaker Series, a series of talks and panel discussions hosted by acclaimed Canadian journalist and founder of The Tyee, David Beers. Free with admission to Home Grown, the Food and Beers series includes a night with James McKinnon and Alisa Smith, the authors of The 100 Mile Diet (November 25, 2010), and a chance to meet Vancouver food writers (December 8, 2010).

Also on the MOV menu: the FREE MOV-ie in the Park, a FREE screening of Ang Lee’s Eat Drink Man Woman in Vanier Park this Monday, August 23.

Home Grown: Local Sustainable Food is at MOV from August 26, 2010 – January 2, 2011.