Anybody see this movie? Here is a short interview with the owners of the farm I thought I’d share.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv1Ydey7QO4
I found the movie entertaining. It's sort of a Hollywood, glamorized version of starting a small, organic family farm. I see from their website that they now sell tickets for regular tours so maybe they've become like a SoCal theme park? The average small farm would never have their resources. I'd be really curious what someone like you who has done it without all the hype and connections thinks of this movie!
First of all I have not seen the movie but can tell that it is a movie for children, meant to inspire them and open minded adults without sounding pedantic, which has tended to incite name calling like “tree hugger” , “purist” or “crazy.” To me it seems heavily influenced by someone with knowledge of The Waldorf Schools.
Due to my own long journey to get healthy I know the brain, the gut and the soil are all interconnected. Natural nutrient cycling, microbial life, bacteria are essential for soil health and our own survival. I know from experience that eating nutrient rich food grown with these natural farming methods can heal both body and mind. Our current industrial way of farming is not only killing the soil but it is slowly Killing us and polluting everything and only benefitting the large pharmaceutical companies Spraying our food with copper and other bacteria killing substances to disguise a fungal diseases makes absolutely zero sense to me. Growing our food with synthetic chemicals that bypass the natural nutrient cycle and leach into our waterways and cause stuff like red tide makes zero sense to me.
There is another way, each of us have a choice and hopefully this movie will inspire a couple of future gardeners as they will need to clean up the mess we have made with our current industrial farming practices. Anything that spreads the virtues of regenerative farming/biodynamics is alright by me. I give it two thumbs up.
Topic: The Biggest Little Farm (Read 1979 times)