The Call of the Land: Meet The Next Generation of Farmers | Short Film Showcase
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- Опубліковано 1 січ 2016
- Photographer Eva Verbeeck and filmmaker Spencer MacDonald spent three weeks documenting the lives of young farmers throughout the Pacific Northwest. In this short film, hear why the farmers were drawn to the laborious but often rewarding occupation.
Eva Verbeeck - www.evaverbeeck.com/ageofthefa...
Spencer MacDonald - halfmagicfilms.com/
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"Old Strange" - Black Twig Pickers and Steve Gunn
"Another Version of You" - Chris Zabriskie
"Miracle" - GAEA
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Glad to watch this. Im 33 and spent half of my life living a slave life in the capital city of my country. Earning enough money just to pay bills and a little bit of entertainment.
Until 3 months ago my business went down and i got back to my hometown and started a farm on my parents' land. Its been a life changing experience and allowed me to see the world in a different perspective
+Ridhuan Abu Bakar Good for you mate. Still a lot of hard work but who cares about a small income so long as its a healthy living. My grandparents were farmers in England and they were not wealthy at all. Poor in fact but they enjoyed their life amid the hills and valleys where their farm was. All the best to you. It's about what values we seek.
I think that new technologies will make farning more enjoyable, take solar energy that save the electrical bills, Internet that keep you connected, drones to watch your crops and scare animals. And it's only starting, there are technologies to harvest water from the cloud, solar water dessalinisation. I think farming is no longer a lifestyle from the past but a lifestyle for the future
WyeExplorer thats great man, thanks for reading my story as well! We need to explore the world in order to appreciate whats best for us.. as for me city lifestyle really taught me to appreciate the countryside life even more...
Alberto Humova wow, thats some serious thought. "drones to watch your crops" now thats unthinkable before but very interesting proposition. i agree the technology should help us in a big way as u mentioned, and also chose the organic path of growing crops..
Alberto Humova Yeah for sure employ new technology but if it starts replacing the will to be physical then we become redundant...and our strength and connection to nature withers. I work with renewable energy so I get your point and as for remote scarecrows..great! Water harvesting from clouds. Brilliant! Robot to do the farming for you. Downer!
"The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings"
-- Masanobu Fukuoka
I read his book. It makes me being interested in natural agriculture so much.
Great quote
I love farming, and I think farming is our best natural self. But let's not get carried away here...we're never going to be perfect except through Jesus Christ who paid the penalty of our sins and who can redeem us from our imperfections.
Is this quote from book "The one straw revolution"?
@@troglodyte2797 Yess
There's something magical about physically growing your own food and then eating it. It's a deep sense of satisfaction one feels.
Ste B probably because it's hardwired into every human
Ste B
It is... the circle of life.
My dad does that, we eat our own plants half of the time
And yeah it indeed feels great for some reason
Don't forget about the millions of years of wisdom and undiscovered intelligence, senses and powers that plants have... they are partnered with us
That’s not farming... that’s gardening.
Farming : most noble and honest profession in world .
I agree and I'm a nurse, and many say that about my profession. If I didn't have certain physical issues (like Arthritis in my shoulder and knee...) I wish I could be a farmer.
also one of the most necessary professions in the world. Producing healthy food assures our long survival, provides us a quality life, not a life based on processed and genetically modified food and on diseases of all kinds, one worse than another
Until Monsanto infects your field with their genetically modified seed, and then sues you for growing their crops without a license.
@@richardburton5184 touché my friend. 👍
If done the right way in cooperation with nature -> Permaculture
Without farmers all profession will be nothing...
Salute to all farmars you are the true hero's.
I don't have a farm, but I have a small garden and absolutely LOVE it.You don't need much space to produce a lot of food. I had never had a garden other than flowers before. I find growing food is something spiritual, I don't know how it happens, but it does. I can be in a bad mood, go out to the garden and something happens to my mood. I think the nature of mankind is to commune with the natural world and life around us. Grounding, or walking barefoot balances our energy. Growing your own food should be a part of every person's life at some point in one's life, Just in case you may need to one day.
I. LOVE. THIS. Thank Yooooou
This is very true. It keeps us in tune with nature...as we were meant to be.
totally agree
Inner Observer totally true! I used to have a really small vegetable garden and always amazed me how magical it was....
Well said
This cinematography is AMAZING
Absolutely stunning. I was there 😁
The question is: Is it organic farming?
It's NatGeo.. Always on 100%
We left the US states to move to Puerto Rico to start this farming journey. We left good jobs and sold our house .I wouldnt trade it for anything in the world.
do you have an instagram? do you guys post things about your farm?
What part? I live in the states, I came back just before hurricane Maria. I'm usually in Mayaquez as my family lives up the mountain. Lived about a year in Rincon.
Well done. 👍
Something mainstream people don't recommend to kids for college... a degree in agriculture or botany, major jobs open for those fields..always.
derty QWERTY
Right.. but the jobs are to mostly support the fertilizer industry.. not the small organic farmers!
derty QWERTY funny how I've realized I wanted to do that right after I graduated for college 😆
@@kaamranmohammad1584 not sure about your background, but as a student in a plant science program at a large college, I know one person interested in working with fertilizers/chemicals. Most of what we are taught currently is moving away from "modern" practices and more about implementing highly efficient traditional strategies. Reliance on chemicals is on it's way out, at least for the educated and open minded grower. Sustainability is a huge topic in all courses.
Absolutely your views are right.
Maureen Mailander this is so reassuring and refreshing to hear
Sometimes I forget why I ever got interested in this kind of farming and why I wanted that to become my goal, but every now and then I get reminded by videos like these. Thanks!
So beautiful. I am going to became a farmer one day. I am 16
You are lucky; United States and Canada are so big with fertile land. Countries like china and india would fight for a tiny space
The problem is that American and canadian oil industry and some industries are polluting the lands, making food price jump.
I think people should farm to have fun, not just for big money profit. If you a young farmer, you work hard at first just to start, then you relax a bit in a sunny day, a play station and the Internet . Robots and AI are coming strong, drones to help you protect your crop from birds. If you can make it high tech like if you went to live on Mars, life is easy.
There are plenty of lands in canada for a young man like you but canadian government is importing indian, punjabi, Greek and Vietnamese farmers because most people only knows the city.
Farm lands are not that isolated as they use to be when you have a car.
By the time you 23, with autonomous Bus, flying cars already exist. You can farm while flying to the city to watch Justin beaver concert if you like him. Farming is freedom, you the boss, you decide for salary and price for your own food
Farming is not a game, it's not always easy with the weather and price to buy seeds, insects. But I suggest you to start with a virtual farming game. And farming, it's better not be alone, you need a girlfriend who share the same desire, you can have children, a brother to help
Same I just don't know how to get into it
+Taeva Taylor You don't because you're not looking it up. Do the work.
+Kaiva Firleja One possibility is having a "tiny" house or cobb house on a relatively small plot and grow baby grow. It's seems to be large house small yard when it should be opposite. Lower your bills and make the property work for you so you can essentially grow your own money. Kitchen gardening at least, doesnt take much yard to do so. Organic healthy food costs so much to buy but so little money to grow. Makes no sense
I am in a farming based country India wer the lands, lakes , pounds r turning into real estates n high raise buildings most of kids haven't seen greenaries in their life as they grew up, like me. Rest of the farmers r struggling with the monsoon n government policies. Pls save farmers then only a country n its people could lead a healthy n peaceful life.
Agree with you. We need more and more awareness about farming and our dependency on agriculture product to save farming culture from converting to commercial (robotic) culture only.
Yep. Most of kids doesn't know wer does the milk come from I asked a kid in my flats she said it's comes in plastic packed cover😐. In this rate farming both animals n crops it's gonna extinct productions.
Yes. very sad about it but this is the reality now a days in Mega-cities.
Nasreen Fathima so sad! Yes children must be shown where their food comes from so they will have more appreciation for the land. I know children too who think food is “born” at the store!
Yes!!
When i was a little girl i always wanted to be a farmer, it always was so beautiful to me. Then i let it go, i went with the path that youre now expected to take, but now as a young adult (27) i already feel my younger gils dreams come back. And im happy there have been people before me to help me along the way
My husband & I are 80 years young and have been living on our small plot of land and growing a small garden for all of our years together. Even as we were growing up our families have always grown a garden. My first job was in the onion patch and potato patch. Our grandmother used to say: "Lord, bless this year's crop and may there be enough for us as well as anyone who drops by." That continues to be our motto.
I grew up on a farm and became a teacher. My father and his father were farmers. My brother continues to farm. I live in Washington DC and have had the opportunity to return every summer and share my roots with my children over the past 30 years. Those opportunities of going into the fields, feeding the animals and learning about how our food is grown are experiences they will never forget. I appreciate this film. And to this day I will say that farming is one of the most difficult mental and physical jobs one can enter into, but for a family unit and sense of accomplishment is can be the best career.
My grandparents were farmers in Herefordshire England. I remember them well until the age of 16-17. The whole community in their day would be involved. I think a little less automation would revive the spirit of farming. of course that would mean a kind of shift in modern economics but I am sure a balance can be struck. Great video...loved it. Mark.
The healthiest environment to grow up and live in.
When i was a kid in the 50s, my Dad had turned the last 20 feet of our house's property, measured from back of lot forward, into a food garden. I was quite young but i helped (or thought i did) and learned, and loved doing it. Mom would send me out to the garden as she prepared dinner for certain things, and i was so proud when Dad nodded, (he'd shown me how to see what was ready and how to harvest it) and he let me go do it alone!
When did this kind of education stop?
Made my heart happy just to watch that. My grandparents were farmers and in my sixties now I'm growing food in my suburban garden. There's such simple pleasure in watching food grow, then picking and eating it. Really gets you out of your head.
So beautiful...greetings from generations of Indonesian farmers
Mantap CapCapung
Bertani it kernnn
Farming helps us to reconnect with earth. At the end we'll feel peaceful & content.
Hundreds of people, who never thought of farming, have and are moving toward farming as a profession every day. This is a step forward and a step that is going to help sustainable growth and development. These trends are helpful not only with the environmental situation but also for the economic aspects.
As an early thirties person who just began farming, this video filled me with inspiration, optimism and joy. I hope we figure out how to inspire more young farmers!
Beautiful film. I love the concept of going back to producing our own food, having an own garden to grow plants in, or even a farm. I grew up in the countryside, grew up with a big garden and chickens, and ever since I moved to the city I felt like something is missing. Although I spent most of my life in the city. Now I have at least a large balcony, where I grow some herbs and vegetables, and I feel that reconnecting with nature for a little bit is making me so insanely happy. My mother recently told me, that I would have been a great farmer, and I felt this little twinge in me, for my grandparents had a small farm, and all they had done in the past is now gone. Now farming has become this kind of engineering I wouldnt feel happy with. Maybe one day I´ll have my own garden, and I can somehow reconnect with what I have lost. A part of my past, my culture, and nature itself.
I grew up on a farm watching my dad growing food and looking after farms every day and I will most likely become a farmer too.
permaculture is the answer
I wish this documentary is updated to 2019-2020. I think many people are changing their view of growing their own food. Specially young people. I’m starting to grow our family food garden and it’s been an amazing journey. I still need to learn more. But in my search for knowledge I have noticed many young people interested in growing their food, organic farming and preparing healthy food. It’s amazing. I’m really enjoying this new chapter in my family life.
This is the very reason why I wanted farming. I know I haven't started yet because I am still studying full time or masters but as soon as I will do teaching as a permanent instructor, I will do farming parallel to that.. I love life and fresh food...
I wish I had a small log cabin on a small piece of land and a small farm.
For me, food is everything, healthy food, healthy life.
I think I might be getting obsessed with farming videos... It's so peaceful being around nature.... Helping the environment... The harmony sings a beautiful song itself😍
I live in a big city of surabaya indonesia. And i'm a farmer, i'm using hydroponic technique. With very little space we can grow lot of vegie and fruit plant. And i love it.
This is why I moved out of Denver to Wyoming. We purchased 40 acres in Wyoming and started a garden and hunting with my son. it is great living.
City life to farming to killing animals...hmmm. I Have lived most of my life outside of the city and have farmed, but not raising animals for slaughter.
@@Livetoeat171 yeah good stuff. Took a couple of years for hunting. But if you are going to eat meat it is the way to go
@@Livetoeat171 obviously you've NEVER lived in any sort of rural area. someone of your prejudices might want to just ignore this video, and stay in suburbia.
I'm 36 and been small farming for a while....love it we eat 20% of our food from the back yard right now .that's pretty good
The sound design of this video is world class. So good.
I cannot explain the high vibratory emotion generated by watching this. It is not just my highest dream ever, but also it is profoundly inspirational.
Thank you 🙏
Until the age 14 95% of my food was what we grew, then moved to the suburbs and that was over.
+Lucus Kane and this is why everyone is sick but they live longer. Less work, and industrialized food cause the body to break down slower but remain in a permanent state of revolt against all the shit they put in our food to make it last on the shelf long enough to turn a profit.
If this was Armageddon, Monsanto would be one of the 4 horsemen. But it would be like a zombie version, because the idiots at Monsanto actually think they are righteous bringers of life. They believe in the Majesty of their achievements more than the lab results and scientific research. Because they believe in Profit.
History is filled with horrifyingly tragic events, that happened for the most pure and noble of intentions. Monsanto is well on it's way to dominating the entire world's food supply. And when it does, something horrifyingly tragic is going to happen. Not because they are evil. But because they believe they are bringing food to Billions and solving world hunger.
Remember the Banana Plague? Imagine what will happen if Monsanto's GMOs all have a defect and the entire world's food supply went extinct because the GMOs are allowed to breed with natural populations. Billions would be dead in a month and there would be nothing we could do to stop it. NOTHING.
So stop supporting the lies of corporate media. They literally could make humans go extinct without a single nuke dropped. Maybe they won't mean to, but they will have the power to accidentally make human beings extinct. And that is too much power to allow anyone to have. EVER. People are stupid assholes about 83% of the time. This is the only Universal Constant I know to be true.
And everyone's shit stinks. No asses need to be placed on a golden thrown in a modern world.
+Zenn Exile you are kind Of pessimist man ,why you're struggling so much ?
Oh no this is the optimistic version. Things are actually this bad now. And believe possibly even worse.
We got idiots with guns rallying behind a known arson and semi-wealthy cattle rancher. He's a fucking shithead, and people are trying to incite Civil War nonsense over his plight...
And then...
World War 3 is being drummed up by the Western Media and Kim Dum Fuk just popped a hydrogen bomb. Shit is just about to kick off unless people open their eyes. All the emotional issues in the media are designed to distract from actual events taking place all around us.
The Kings and Emperors who we as a species resoundingly rejected, never went anywhere. They are simply learning new ways to keep their wealth and power, without you, the slaves, noticing what is going on until it is too late.
The Revolution is not against Each other, It is against the Economy. The Economy is being used to enslave us. And we must eliminate the ability for so few to consolidate so much power. Or War will never end.
@@ZennExile Read a Book called The Great Controversy. Talks all about it.
I want to do this and I could do this but my wife shoots me down every time I mention it,sad thing is she complains about her job and gets headaches all the time but she still thinks I'm crazy when I say lets have a lifestyle change,I want a change because I am going crazy in the same boring job for 20 years,I got sick and had a lot of time off work and I didn't want to go back but she still can't see why I want to go back to the country,the anxiety is the worst,I think about this all the time,very frustrating.
Hmm interesting. Thanks for sharing. I would like to point out that farming brings in a whole new set of stressors: making the food, being suseptible to uncontrolable factors such as the weather, lack of mobility, perhaps less community, less entertainment. Now having said that, if you feel tired of 20 years of spinning your wheels in a boring job in a boring neighborhood, then PLEASE get out and do something. Live your life. Save some money and make the leap, have an adventure, start a farm.
Matbe you need to dump the wife to find Happiness and after she comes to stay on your farm she might see the light and change her mind !
Do you have a yard? If you do, farm it. You can grow a whole bunch of food in just a quarter acre. :)
At the moment I live in the city and have only a single strip of sand around 4 feet wide and 15 feet long ! currently we have bell peppers , chillis , carrots , Chives , sweet basil, Thai Basil, tomatoes , lemon Tyme , and a passionfruit vine on the fence Oh and a pumpkin in the front garden bed !
I agree with kitti and Bradley. Start small. I have had veggie gardens for 30 years. They can be very satisfying but can be overwhelming if you bite off more than you can chew
This is so interesting. I wish it were a full length documentary.
My heart is beating out of my chest with yearning. This is so beautiful. I want to be a farmer.
I am an accountant but I want to be a farmer. After being exposed to the real world of professional and industry. 🌻💕
NB Stranger same here. This profession is killing my spirit, I must do something else with my life.
Good to see the next generation doing this!
A rare insight and example of how life should be for the majority of people. It once was and is now looked down upon by the people who want to rot in cubicles looking forward to their little break at the water cooler.
We farm 5 acres of organic fruit and vegetables.
We very much appreciate this wonderful video.
This is just such a lovely doc - tx for making it.
you have the best camera angels
Perfect video of exactly how I feel. And beautiful scenery too!
absolutely gorgeous. Thank You Guys !! All of you.
I appreciate any young person of this modern time of r/evolution that's willing to take a pause in these unpredictable times and farm to keep us alive. Much appreciated.
perfect short film
it would be great like to make another video explaining where there is good land to farm on
The large prairies of canada, Russia, Argentina, Brazil's matto grosso .
It's a lot easier just to look it up with a search engine, so you can narrow your search.
joe saab VERMONT😊
you can farm pretty much anywhere if there is some water and if you plant the right crops and know how to take care of those crops. all countries have farms.
Plenty space here in Texas. Problem here is that it rarely gets cold cold. If you like snow or something.
What an inspiring short film. I hope to do what they've done one day, but I live in the city of Chicago. How true of what they said about how farming isn't presented as a viable career choice for young people. We really have no control over the things we're passionate about. Very inspiring
This is such a beautiful interview! Holy cow! Amazing and props to the film/producers
Beautiful photography
Am 31 a scientist but I want to become a farmer. Am in London and grow veg everywhere in my flat and balcony.
"get back in touch with the food because that's ultimately what you are" BOY have I been looking for that statement! I mean I've always heard "you are what you eat" but this time it really clicked for me.
this is an absolutely AWESOME video for anyone who is younger or who has struggled throughout their life...there is a way..and this is it....
It looks so idyllic, so basic and down to earth. Who doesn't want this!?
People who do not want to get their hands dirty or are too self centered to give up on having "more" than everyone else....in other words greed and laziness.
I do stock trading in the morning and farming at the evening. Pretty good balance.
Wow, amazing and beautiful editing
The sound is amazing! Great job!
Thats like actually very interesting made some life long ideas pop up
It's not uncommon to see millennials getting into farming and raising plants. We grew up in a time where a hole in the ozone layer, environmental degredation, and ecological disasters are a part of life. This is our way of helping the planet. P.S. Apologies for the double negative.
Inspiring 😘 New gardener here just started my mini garden.I feel the excitement and magic when seeds start .sprouting now waiting for my first harvest 🍆🍆🍅🍅🌱☘☘🌿🌱Thank you for sharing this video😘😘
I myself never grew up with family members who farmed and I am extremely passionate about being self sufficient and farming my own produce and protein. I want to get back to my roots, do what my great grandparents did. I love this video.
I'm moving to Hawaii to work on a farm
Lance Beckman all the best
Lance Beckman since this is 3 years old. How is your farm going? I hope you continued with your plan and all is going well
Totally correct, I am 27 living with my wife I started off by getting a couple herbs to grow and now I have a totally full greenhouse and 3 raised beds there is that much food that I am having to put it outside 🙈😂
I am 35 and starting a market garden and UA-cam business. I'm hooked on the idea of working in my backyard instead of waiting tables!
Farming is our connection to the lamd and we are forgettimg it...i come from a farm and i live in the city now... Every time i can i escape to the outdoors cos i miss them like a breath of fresh air.
The activity you have undertaking is praise worthy. But the solution to the modern day problem is bringing down the level of consumption which everyone knows is against the concept of economic development. It is a fact that the standards of developed nations cannot be replicated through out the entire world because this poor earth cannot bear that level of consumption. Every human being must take it as his duty to leave behind the same earth he used to live on to his successors and other living being.
land is toooooo expensive for younger people
Condos are even more expensive
+Dave Eade Even if you have a small plot you can still grow alot of food. Don't let anyone tell you different. Tons of research on it.
Less than an acre?
Yeah, land is only cheap for young farmers coming up when the land is wayyy out in nomans land, where you have no water wells, no power, NOTHING. If you get any of those things, it costs tens of thousands of dollars, which no farmer can save in this economic time. IM-POSS-IBLE. The Homestead Act needs to be reinstated, so people starting can get free land like those before us...land that the gov takes and does completely nothing with.
Dave Eade "Less than an acre?" - look up Curtis Stone, he has a thriving business growing & selling salad greens on a THIRD of an acre. Just one example. There's hope dude
Lovely to see this interest in farming. I write and speak about food history and agricultural history, trying to get people interested in where our food comes from, and I do think there is increased interest in knowing -- but it's good to see interest in doing.
A beautifully written and inspiring documentary. Thank you for your dedication😊
This is beautifully shot and depicted but unfortunately not accurate to the majority of agricultural operations in the U.S. It also fails to display the many unromantic aspects of farming
Clayton Lynch it’s not a comprehensive video on farming as a whole. It’s just shy of 6 min. These videos don’t have to be your ideal. They’re showing a part of a story. A story that is meant to make ppl more curious.
True because the majority of farms in the US are monoculture or animal agriculture, I think this is a hopeful glimpse of what agricultural operations could like like with a new wave of young farmers
I came looking for solutions to Global problems and found only solutions for wealthy people who want to get out of the rat race, which was rather disappointing. Nice though if you can afford it.
@@someblokecalleddave1 how about cooperatives? community gardens? homesteading collectives? there are literally thousands of these all across america. look outside the box, and do networking. I can't think of a single area in america, that doesn't have a least some of those things. There are agriculture grants, crowdfunding, small-scale farming clubs, etc. America has a whole lot more of this positive style of agriculture, than most people ever realize, because the big agriculture corporations, spend billions on media and lobbying corrupt politicians, in an attempt to secure their fortunes and corporate empires. These big businesses know that their food is low quality and that their "farming" practices are foul and destructive, but all they see is money, not people or nature. Look around and do your homework, and you'll find tons and tons of small homestead style farms, etc, all over!.
@@someblokecalleddave1 Solutions are everywhere, but the nature of this realm is that there are always problems. It's a college, that's all. Forget about this world, it will always be here. What do YOU want for yourself?
Id be a farmer too if I had a million dollars worth of land nestled in the mountains....
+Recon9143 its so difficult
+Blake Munn then make something in a pot :))
+Recon9143 this misconception you have was engineered by super wealthy corporations who count on your slave work in the cities they built. They want you to believe it is impossible to live outside their mechanized slave pits. They want you eating the slave food they design for you. Because the more money you spend on shit you don't need, the closer to zero cost your labor becomes.
The modern industrial society is a slave society. It may not be the only thing holding the poor and impoverished down, but food production is one of the links in the chain.
All we need to do is break One link in the chain and the false rulers of this planet lose their power and rot away like a half-assed boil that can't beat your immune response but still hurts for a little while.
Making schools into farms, would break the chain and free the slave class. For real. Instead of just whitewashing historical records and using lies and half-truths to warp and diminish the perception people have of reality.
If you work, and it costs you all you earned to live and raise a family. You are just a slave who gets to pretend they are free for the low low price of all your time on earth. Pretty sweet deal huh? You work, you get to live and have kids, while the ultra-wealthy elite benefit, you die in obscurity with nothing. Why?
We are all like slave miners. We rent our tools from the foreman, we rent our homes from the landowner, and we get paid just enough to cover our food. We are slaves, by all definitions. There is no rising to the occasion. Those spots are occupied.
why would you be a farmer instead of a world champion cross country skier? smh
+Recon9143 Permaculture farming, does not require millions of dollars or acres of land. It requires "Spirit"
This is the most inspirational video ive ever seen loved it been a farmer my whole life wouldn't have it any other way
Such an interesting film. Especially the way sound was incorporated into it.
Dont get me wrong, i liked the idea. But let's remember that this is wealthy Canada, ladies and gentlemen. It's far easier for Canadian farmers to live sustainable than in any other country. Canada and most of the powerful countries depend heavily on third world countries (talking in Capitalistic terms), for example, Canada has a monopoly on mining industry in my country: Mexico. Canada destroys hills and mountains to obtain minerals from our soil, profiting from our lack of control over mining policies. So, what happens when a third world inhabitant wants to be a farmer in a wealthy country like the guys in the video? you simply can't. The conditions and circumstances are totally different. In order to live sustainably we MUST understand our local society's inherent problems and vices, we cannot compare our realities with the reality of Canada or rich European countries that pillage third world countries. We must understand our reality and change it accordingly, and cease to believe eurocentric ideas that just do bad to ourselves. We, the people of poorer countries or regions, need to understand that our reality is different, thus, our solutions and eventual farming realities will be different from the portrayed in this video. So, be a little critical and don't believe that everything has to be as media portrays it. Sure, it looks nice and music makes me wanna cry, but let's be realistic and start changing our own context. And for the people of wealthy countries: its not enough to "live from farming", you must be socially responsible, YOU are responsible of the pillaging that your government does to other countries. Talk about it! Act against it! if you stay silent, all you are is a player in the same game. You cannot think that living off from the land inhibits your social responsibility, be conscious in every level! you are not rich coincidentally, it comes from many actions that your society tries to mask or erase.
Thank you Sundar, let's hope people begin questioning their realities and privileges so we can all share a planet together, founded with equality and justice
Claudio Nahmad
Amen buddy
Claudio Nahmad South America was the foundation of the US wealth and power, they were built on the blood and flush of the farmers and miners sadly this goes on. Im from the middle east Yemen and I can relate to what you saying. Yemen is one of the most rich countries in resources oil, green lands, major seaports and heritage sites all over the country yet it is now the poorest country in the niddle east beacause of the long hands of the richer countries that took over the seaports and gas and oil fields and supplied the wars. I kniw you cant throw the blame on others but cant deny their role, they profit from our misery and the image isnt as bright is it appears in this film because the context is not the same
Thank you for speak out the truth, I'm also from Mexico, and I feel you, we lack from a lot of opportunities that they don't, and they dont even realize that .
Hate when that Canadian company stole that indigenous sacred land from mining in Mexico , and no one seemed to care.
good food for thought, thank you
Bill Mollison Permaculture! Yes!
Thanks for sharing. Even though I am not directly came from farmer family but I love farming. In my balcony I can't grow what ever I want but always I try to grow something. Even though the weather or climate is not appropriate for cultivation at all here in Kuwait .
Thanks for sharing this!
to every farm we lose to shopping center and new home, the cost of food gose up
Ismael D very true
Very true
very cool, but is more like next generation gardeners...
looks more like lifestyle homesteading/self sufficiency to me.
I absolutely LOVE what your doing. Such actual and intentional living
Beautiful clip thank for Make this available for the world to see. Awesome
People will.need land ..for this kind of fairy tale farming!
Land is cheap if you're willing to get away from large cities.
This is so overproduced it hurts.
Oh! How beautiful. Watching this makes you so peaceful by looking at those green plants. Nature is so lovely. I'm 26 and I want to be into farming.
you are singing my song, oh how i long for the day im back on land so i can do exactly what your explaning. great video guys.we love it from new zealand
I just want to be a hunter-gatherer lol.
With land rates it's nearly impossible. A few people here in Australia will live secluded in national parks, technically illegal but most never get caught.
Me too
Then go for it there is plenty of wild land
It's all well and good to have hippies growing vegetables in the mountains, good on them, but this won't feed the world. I wish it did but ,due to peoples lack of education, there are so many people in this world who can only be fed through large scale, intensive agriculture. The world has too many people on it and so we cannot all live "the good life". I work in intensive dairy farming in the UK and I have to say, large scale agriculture can be horrible, especially when it comes to animal welfare, but it is the sad reality of our population situation.
+Henry Love-Jones I think feeding yourself is a good start, and swap seeds and produce with neighbors. Even worm compost. Nowadays you can have chickens, quail and even goats in your backyard, make a closed system. I think it starts as more community based, my opinion.
+Toni Bartling exactly
Toni Bartling I agree totally with your ethos, I haven't a bad word to say against it, however, there are two main problems we must overcome before we can have more self sufficiency within our communities. The first being that a lot of people haven't got the space to grow things because, lets face it, you can't grow enough to feed a family of four on a balcony in the city. The second problem is inclination. People can't be bothered, either they're uninterested in producing there own food, they can't be bothered to do it or they don't have the time to do it. Think about when a doctor gets home from a night shift, does he really want to go out all day to tend to his crops and livestock and then back out at night, it just isn't practical, as much as i would like it to be. I'm lucky in that I live in the countryside and have plenty of space to grow my own vegetables and keep bees and things like that, but not everyone has these luxuries.
In the U.S. 40% of all the good we grow goes to waste, thrown away. That and 'sustainable agriculture' has been shown to produce just as well as conventional ag, all factors considered. (Considering many farms survive on subsidies).
In Russia, since the sanctions they've become completely self sufficient with improved farming techniques. However, mainly I want to point out that in the fall of the Soviet era, the 'dachas' came together to feed the nation. Tiny cottage gardens basically, just a ton of them.
It's not about total output, but usage, about how. Similarly with power usage, not about getting led bulbs, but overall habits and uses.
Who says you *have* to feed the world? More people = more destruction.
2 thumbs up for the spirit of Farming !!! Being a farmer's granddaughter I too try to grow in my little space.
Love to hear about you guys, I am 27 and recently moved to a my dad's hometown and started farming.
i am a farmer but dont like this :D
What kind of farmer? Btw, this video isn't really meant for farmers, is it?
+Lucus Kane we are growing most of them but i love it
Its funny how they show footage of them picking crops but not slaughtering their animals..
Because farning is not always about animals, they are more on to crops, other farmers are raising catles.
It's really hard for two person to take care of animals, the risks are big if you can't hire helpers. Agriculture is more easy.
If they have animals, they don't have to slaughter it themselves, they would sell them to a slaughter house
+Andrey Dorokhin Most retarded comment i have read so far in 2016.
+LordoftheKaty No I don't but I know that killing animals is unavoidable sometime when disease spread, animal is too old. All am say is that there are different types of farming, you should ask them if they kill animals. Probably they don't need too, they deal only with the soil and plants
+LordoftheKaty I totally agree with you and I am not denying the facts, but killing animals for necessity is not cruoty. We kill chicken for thousands of years now, since we put the mamooth and whales to extinction.
But those people don't have slaughter house, they kill when in need, not industrialy
it's sad how farmers are some of the hardest working people out there. And they get paid the least, and they have so many hoops to jump thru, blessed is the hand that feeds you. one day we will reconnect with what truly matters.
I love love love this!!! Thank you for making such a nice, sweet, meditative video ❤❤❤
I'd live off the land too...if I had an army of robot slaves to do the work for me. :c
It is so wonderful to see that so many people all over the world seek for farming! my husband and I have changed our life for the beauty of land, sun, fresh air and moved from unbearable Moscow to the chernozem on the central Russian plain and are really happy about it! it's a shame too many people have to live a plastic life in the big cities, while the land in Russia is so cheap and rich..
About 25 years back, in my MBA class, I was not just the odd one out for saying "I want to be a farmer", everyone laughed and probably looked down on me as a "looser"... today, I still have the plan firmly in mind, and I am moving closer to my objective.
This video is so amazing. I just wish more people could be like these and produce more organic food.