Movies | January 05, 2010 | 9 comments

Farm For The Future: A Documentary

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SeaJade
This is a superb documentary! Highly recommend taking the time (an hour) to watch this, there is a button on the bottom right hand corner of the small screen that will pull it up to full screen....

From the web site:
"Wildlife film maker Rebecca Hosking investigates how to transform her family’s farm in Devon into a low energy farm for the future, and discovers that nature holds the key.
With her father close to retirement, Rebecca returns to her family’s wildlife-friendly farm in Devon, to become the next generation to farm the land. But last year’s high fuel prices were a wake-up call for Rebecca. Realising that all food production in the UK is completely dependent on abundant cheap fossil fuel, particularly oil, she sets out to discover just how secure this oil supply is.
Alarmed by the answers, she explores ways of farming without using fossil fuel. With the help of pioneering farmers and growers, Rebecca learns that it is actually nature that holds the key to farming in a low-energy future..."
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9 comments // Farm For The Future: A Documentary

  • AnimaWave
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      AnimaWave  

    • "Got to get ourselves back to the Garden" Joan Baez would be so happy to have a copy of this DVD. I'm blessed to see it, and elated to share it. Sent it out via FB, which doesn't have an official page for this yet, but as people share it, a default is created... please Like it on FB to help get the word out!

    • 1 year ago
  • artemis6
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      artemis6  

    • That was really cool . Thanks so much . There is so much to learn from nature about gardening , I am glad for any new ideas or help .

    • 2 years ago
  • SeaJade
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      SeaJade  
    • artemis6:

      you are welcome artemis, nature couldn't be a better teacher when it comes to gardening :-)
      have you looked at some of the permaculture videos added on the sustainable channel here?

    • 2 years ago
  • artemis6
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      artemis6  
    • artemis6:

      This is something I am researching a lot lately , getting ready for spring , I will check it out . The seasons are often short here , so I need to be very clever at what I plant and how as it is !

    • 2 years ago
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  

    • Yes Jubal, technology is a wonderful thing in many instances. However, where it concerns nature in respect to our survival I don't believe it holds the answers. We can see that plainly now.

    • 2 years ago
  • jubal
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      jubal  

    • Nature holds the key to many of the solutions we need for the future. But we are having technology forced literally down our throats. I look forward to seeing her vision for our future.

    • 2 years ago
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  

    • Seajade: This was an excellent documentary that truly puts the future of farming into perspective. Peak oil will change the way we must live on this planet. However, as was said in the documentary, we have waited too long to make the transition to alternate energies, so the question now is will we have enough time? I blame politicians most for this because of their unwavering support for fossil fuel interests for $$$ over being morally aggressive in pursuing alternate energy policies to make this conversion sooner. This is also where our 'green jobs' are and where our economy can flourish... farming. We must begin now to think local and to think of visionary ways to sustain ourselves (like that nut grower) or we will be overhwhelmed. The only brighter spot to this is that industrial agriculture as we know it will not be able to survive. Farmers will have no choice but to look to sustainable agriculture to survive. Nature already has the answers we need, if we only but look.

    • 2 years ago
  • SeaJade
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      SeaJade  
    • JanforGore:

      I agree on all your points. I appreciated that Rebecca Hoskings came from a "conventional" starting point, was intent on solving a problem and found some answers. It helps that she is also intelligent.

      My mother came from a small farming family in Oxford and often spoke of her life in the country. What was startling to me was how quickly farming methods changed in England - a realm that was once a land of gardeners and appreciators of the natural world to an almost complete disconnection from their "roots".

    • 2 years ago
  • JanforGore
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