It’s hard not to think about food this summer. Maybe it’s the promise of outdoor eating: the freedom of a backyard, the smell of barbeque.

Or maybe it’s this unrelenting heat that somehow makes the task more appetizing than usual. And that’s when I know it’s serious—not even lower back sweat can deter wild food imaginings.

You need to unpeel your t-shirt from the back of that lawn chair and check out the trailers for “Salt, Fresh & Field.” This show, currently in production on the West Coast, is what humidity-fueled food adventure dreams are made of.

Salt Fresh & Field TEASER from Salt, Fresh & Field on Vimeo.

First of all, looking at any outdoor footage makes me hungry. Synapses are already firing between brain and stomach when I watched their time-lapse camping video. Can we check out the science behind that? Is it the s’mores? Anyway, back to the show.

Playing our food adventure guide is Chad Brealey, who definitely looks the part as he walks you through forest and stream.

But he also feels like someone you actually want to hang out with, as we hunt/fish/find ways to eat real food. No hint of snark in his assessment of sustainable food options (that’s looking at you, celebrity chefs & food personalities) and also the narrative shows no sign of suggesting extravagant upscale dining establishments as the poster child for food culture (‘No really you have to come experience our organic such-and-such for just $79.95 a plate!’). Chad shows us real food, real people bringing food to your table, and real people wanting to eat it. We’re right here, Chad! Over here!

Because it feels like we’re missing the story in the Farm-to-Table movement some of the time, doesn’t it? If we’re really supposed to care about the where and why of our dinner choices, I want you totake me there.

Show slogging through the riverbed to find the perfect spot to fish, negotiating the forest for a deer hunt…and the butcher! Let’s see what the butcher looks like! Salt, Fresh & Field is asking us to do just that—strap on boots and follow them on excursions across land and sea that take us back to the kitchen.

So before you journey back into the heat, while you’re still at your computer and not calling up Chad Brealey to schedule a personal outdoor food-finding adventure, you can fire up the internet engines and head over to their website and Vimeo channel to check out their videos.

As the trout swims downstream,

– KK