The Hands that Feed Us

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Newsletter #15: Tangible Progress for The Hands that Feed Us

March 11, 2022 The Hands that Feed Us Newsletters Crazy, Economics, Edit, Funding, Land Price

Tangible Progress at Last!

Calling it crazy: Telling it like it is without losing people

Up next: Wearing too many hats

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Newsletter #14: Next Year for The Hands that Feed Us

December 29, 2021 The Hands that Feed Us Newsletters Amara Farm, Flood, Klippers Organics, Land Tenure, Lifeboat, Overview Farms

Of land and Lifeboats

Up next: Pushing the boulder over the precipice

How to own a farm in China

Water where you don’t expect it

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Newsletter #13: What is “The Farming Lifestyle” anyway?

December 29, 2021 The Hands that Feed Us Newsletters Heat Dome, Money, The Farming Lifestyle

The art of avoiding money

Up next: Pushing the world out of the way to edit

FOMO: Head, drought and grasshoppers

What makes “The Farming Lifestyle” worth it?

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Newsletter #12: I learnt the meaning of “Fool’s Spring” in Alberta

May 24, 2021 The Hands that Feed Us Newsletters Calving, Fool's Spring, O.U.R. Ecovillage, Teaser

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

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Newsletter #11: How do I distill eight months of farming into 90 minutes?

March 26, 2021 The Hands that Feed Us Newsletters Edit, Human Book

Editing a documentary: Way less glamourous than farming!

Up next: On the road again (for a few days)

I’m a Human Book — Read me!

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Newsletter #10: I’m done filming (for now)

January 24, 2021 The Hands that Feed Us Newsletters Dairy, Edit, Overview Farms, Robert Overmars, Salt Spring Island

I’m done filming! (for now)

So … I’ve decided I want to get a cow

Up next: Editing the film on Salt Spring Island

Shit that Goes Down on the Dairy Farm

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Newsletter #9: Crossing Canada to visit Overview Farms

January 24, 2021 The Hands that Feed Us Newsletters Antigonish, Newsletter, Overview Farms, Robert Overmars, The Farm with the Good Food

Robert Overmars: the most welcoming dairy farmer in Nova Scotia

Getting paid once a year: Welcome to raising cattle

Driving across Canada — with kittens!

Filming ‘Til the Cows Come Home

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Newsletter #8: How many farms does it take to feed 14,000 people? Just one.

October 3, 2020 The Hands that Feed Us Newsletters Feudalism, Grain, Machinery, Nathan Eshpeter, Succession

Prairie harvest is a race against winter

What does it take to get a prairie farm started?

How feudal are our farmers?

Combine harvesters and baby’s first farm machine

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Newsletter #7: A leap into the unknown

August 2, 2020 The Hands that Feed Us Newsletters Cattle, Food Insecuirty, Grain, Klippers Organics, Row Fourteen

Heading east into the unknown

Klippers’ second job is running Vancouver’s best new restaurant

Food Security is not a subset of Poverty

Eating peaches, tomatoes, and dirt

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Newsletter #6: The Hands that Feed Us at Klippers Organics

June 22, 2020 The Hands that Feed Us Newsletters Footage, Klippers Organics, Temporary Foreign Workers, Timelapses

Eight weeks at Amara Farm

Scaling up: First week at Klippers Organic Acres

Footage preview: Timelapses

What I’ve learned from working on the farm

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  • Newsletter #15: Tangible Progress for The Hands that Feed Us
  • Newsletter #14: Next Year for The Hands that Feed Us
  • Newsletter #13: What is “The Farming Lifestyle” anyway?
  • What makes “The Farming Lifestyle” worth it?
  • Newsletter #12: I learnt the meaning of “Fool’s Spring” in Alberta
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