Newsletter #12: I learnt the meaning of "Fool's Spring" in Alberta
Filming calving season during Fool's Spring Up next: Farming while I edit at O.U.R. Ecovillage A tease of things to come YouTube updates are back
Devon Cooke
Newsletter #11: How do I distill eight months of farming into 90 minutes?
When I sat down in January to start editing The Hands that Feed Us, I felt like I had a pretty good handle on what needed to happen. Boy was I wrong!
Newsletter #10: I'm done filming (for now)
I've collected about 200 hours of footage, done 49 interviews, visited five farms, and travelled coast-to-coast and back — about 20,000km. Somewhere in those hours of footage there is a documentary about what it takes for farmers to make a living.
Newsletter #9: Crossing Canada to visit Overview Farms
Despite many promising conversations, I started my final week at The Farm with The Good Food without a place to go next. I was starting to wonder whether I’d have to return to B.C. without filming a key chapter of the story.
Newsletter #8: How many farms does it take to feed 14,000 people? Just one.
Like most prairie farmers, Nathan grew up on the farm. Over the last couple decades, he's slowly taken over the family farm from his father. But even with family support, it's no cakewalk to get started.
How feudal are our farmers?
There's a question that haunts me when I'm lying in bed pondering what The Hands that Feed Us is really about: Are we at risk of reverting to feudalism?
Newsletter #7: A leap into the unknown
Last week, I packed up my car after seven weeks at Klippers Organics and headed east across the Rockies. I've been filming and farming in B.C. for four months, and it's time to see how farming works in the rest of Canada.