Newsletters

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

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.

Newsletter #4: The Hands that Feed Us starts filming in 9 days

I'm back. I'm still planning to do everything I said: Make a documentary and take it across the country to raise awareness about the difficult finances of farming. And I'm starting in 9 days.

Newsletter #3: The Lands that Feed Us - Why Farmers Can't Afford Land

Access to land is probably the #1 concern I've heard from B.C. farmers since I started talking about agricultural issues, but it's not an issue that has much awareness outside the farming community. This film can help change that.