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!
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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.
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.
Newsletter #6: The Hands that Feed Us at Klippers Organics
My personal saga of working on the farms where I'm filming has continued, and I'm now up to a dozen episodes that document what I've been learning behind the scenes.
Newsletter #5: Hello from Amara Farm
It's official. I arrived on Amara Farm on April 15th to start my new life as a farmhand / filmmaker.