Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 1: Intro to the New Food Movement

Every person on earth needs food every day. Every day food is tended, harvested, transported, stored, and served up on our tables. In a very real sense, food cannot be separated from life itself. And so it has been said that changing the way we grow and eat food is one of the most powerful tools we have for changing our economies and society as a whole.

For a while now, the average age of farmers worldwide has hovered around 60 years old. As the older generations of farmers retire, the question grows more pressing: who will grow the food of the future, and what will their farms look like?

Fortunately, a small but growing number of young people around the world have begun to renew their interest in farming, and they’re likely to have smaller, more diversified, less chemical dependent and more community-oriented farms than the generation preceding them. Not only that, but a surprising number of people with college degrees and “prestigious” desk jobs are leaving urban areas and returning to the land.

For week 1 of our 7 week series on food — we’ve chosen a selection of inspiring short films from the USA, Canada, China, India, Thailand and Australia that offer a glimpse into small diverse farming operations around the world.

And now… here are the films for series 1. Enjoy! - Local Futures

 


 

Part 1 The Age of the Farmer

A beautiful, award winning video that features young farmers in the Pacific Northwestern region of the USA and Canada as they share their thoughts and feelings about it what it means to be a small farmer today.
(5.49 min)

We are not brought up on farms…but even if you go back only a few generations you begin to realize it [farming] is in all of us, it is our roots…I found academia was a lot of talking and not a lot of activity.. …I am creating something amazing [now]

 

Part 2 Back to the Land: The Organic Movement in China

A short film about Zhang Yuqiu, a young farmer who left a job in the city to start her own organic farm just outside Beijing.
(4.59 min)

 

Part  3 Seeds of Life: A Quiet Revolution at the Foothills of Niyamgiri

A return to traditional, organic, mixed farming methods brings new life to the Panga Kodh people in Odisha, India.
(14.49 min)

 

Part 4 Future farmers in Europe

Conversations with eight young farmers who have returned to the land in France, Ireland, Germany and the Netherlands.
(7.48 min)

 

Part 5 How to become Self Reliant in Thailand — Pun Pun Organic Farm

A look at Pun Pun Centre for Self-reliance, a small organic farm, seed saving center, and sustainable living and learning hub near Chiang Mai, Thailand.
(5.16 min)

 

Part 6 Creatures of Place — A Small Family Permaculture Farm in Australia

A family creates an incredible permaculture system on a 1/4 acre of land in Australia. Farming on the smallest scale.
(12.14 min)

 

Part  7 Soul Fire Farm: Feeding the Soul, Growing Community

This film tells the story of the incredible Soul Fire Farm in Albany, New York. Soul Fire is dedicated to ending racism and injustice in the food system, and to reconnecting systemically marginalized people to land, food, and community.
(8.28 min)

www.localfutures.org
Activism   Big Ideas   Community   Food   Permaculture   Solutions   Transition
Rate this video 
Food
Liberation Theory | Ricky Sherover-Marcuse
New Videos
Trending Videos
Anonymous Issues DIRE WARNING To MAGA | The Kyle Kulinski Show
11 min - Anonymous has released a new video warning about the growing threats posed by Trump, JD Vance, and Elon Musk. They outline how economic policies, mass firings, and regulatory rollbacks are...
‘I Don’t Like Chaos’: More MAGA Voters Turn On Trump | The Kyle Kulinski Show
17 min - Today, we examine a rather predictable development: the gradual disillusionment of Trump supporters as the material consequences of his policies begin to manifest. This is not...
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011)
174 min - A series of BBC films about how humans have been colonised by the machines we have built. Although we don't realise it, the way we see everything in the world today is through the eyes of the...
How MAGA Evangelicals Corrupted Christianity
16 min - MAGA evangelicals have abandoned the core teachings of Christianity, replacing the gospel of Christ with blind loyalty to Donald Trump. When Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde called for mercy—the most...
You Need To See This Incredible 17–Minute Film Set Entirely On A Teen’s Computer Screen
17 min - Noah, a short film that debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival, illustrates the flitting attention span and lack of true connection in digital culture more clearly than anything else...
The Corporation (2003)
145 min - The Corporation is today's dominant institution, creating great wealth but also great harm. This 26 award-winning documentary examines the nature, evolution, impacts and future of the modern...
Claim CRITIQUE: Millions of Votes Stolen by Trump, Kamala Won
13 min - David Pakman examines Greg Palast's viral article claiming that Donald Trump did not really defeat Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.TL:DR Voter suppression tactics are a legitimate problem, but...
Trending Articles
The Conflation Trap: How the Left & Right get Fooled into Supporting Elite Interests
Honest Government Ads
Subscribe for $5/mo to Watch over 50 Patron-Exclusive Films
Subscribe $5/mo View All Patron Films

 

Your support keeps us ad-free and financially independent

Our 10,000+ video & article library is 99% free, ad-free, and entirely community-funded thanks to our patron subscribers!


Want to donate extra? You can subscribe and donate an extra $5/mo or more.