“Good Food,” a new documentary film about organic farming, is coming to Vashon Theatre for a screening at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21.

The screening is being presented by Vashon Island Growers Association (VIGA).

The directors, Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young, will be in attendance, joined by several Island food activists, farmers, children and musicians who appear in the film.

“Good Food” provides an in-depth look at how small organic farms in the Northwest are leading a national movement to develop a more sustainable local food system.

The film profiles several organic farmers and ranchers in Washington and Oregon, and also includes interviews with consumers, restaurateurs and store owners who purchase the food grown on small farms.

Islander Mark Musick served as an adviser to Dworkin and Young, and he also appears in the film.

Musick said he consulted with the filmmakers to provide a “broad philosophical context for the film, to help them develop the themes for the film and identify the farmers and distributors who embody those themes.”

Musick is one of the founders of the Tilth Association, a regional network of organic farmers and gardeners who work to develop sustainable agriculture and urban ecology.

While working with the filmmakers, Musick invited them to stay at Vashon Cohousing, where he has lived for the past 20 years. At Cohousing, Dworkin and Young met Dana Schuerholz, the founder of the Homestead School behind Cohousing. Homestead is an alternative school that emphasizes ecological and argricultural practices.

Footage of Homestead students, smiling as they went about their daily farm chores, wound up in the film.

Another Islander, Mark Graham, created some of the music for “Good Food.” Graham describes his songs as “rootsy, bluesy things that go with the nature of the film.”

“Good Food” has received critical acclaim since it premiered at the 2008 Seattle International Film Festival.

William Arnold, movie critic for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, called the film “exhilarating,” and Richard Conlin, Seattle City Council president, said it was an “exciting, thoughtful and provocative movie that asks — and answers — the question: what could life look like if we really wanted to have healthy food for healthy communities?”

For information about the film, visit www.goodfoodthemovie.org.

There is a $5 suggested donation for the screening (children are free), and after the film, the audience is invited to gather at Café Luna to continue to discuss the film and celebrate Vashon’s own vibrant organic farming community.