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Someone on one of my gardening pages recommended this doco/movie and another member sent me this link.
Its available on Netflix and we watched it late this afternoon.
So interesting and full of hope.
I try to share what I have learned with others re gardening and looking after the environment, perhaps especially, feeding the soil and not just the plants.
The documentary expands on this greatly.
As you know, we only have a smallish (in the grand scheme of things) plot of land but pull plenty of food out of it. With no chemicals etc either.
It was great to see large scale operations using biodiversity to strengthen their soils – and their outputs and increase their $$
Monoculture is not doing us any favours.
Anyway, I won’t spoil the plot haha – just to say we really really enjoyed it and it makes us enthused to try harder to do better with what we’ve got…
If you’ve watched it – would love to hear your thoughts!
Cheers!
My son and I enjoyed it. Lots of good information most of which I agreed with. Hare to believe that all we have to do to REVERSE global warming is to improve the soil environment. Sounds so very easy. I believe nurturing and rejuvenating our soils is part of the whole. Other things are important to solving this crisis, also. Anyway, the documentary was well worth watching. I was quite surprised that toward the end, my town and people I have heard of were featured in the documentary, the Markegards in Half Moon Bay, California, who grow sustainable and organic meat for sale.
Hi!! So glad to hear your thoughts!!! And a bit exciting to see familiar people and your home! I did particularly notice the name Half Moon Bay because I thought it was so pretty!! People have underestimated for too long the importance of naturally healthy soils! Humans fiddle with things too much!! haha. Still – I have similar feelings about the mass losses of forests. Its like mulch in your garden… if you don’t have something covering the soil, it heats up a lot more and weeds grow. Countless acres cleared a day leaves a lot of bare land exposed to heat up… Would be nice to really be working towards sustainable – but not in a ‘catchword’ way. But truly look at long term goals and outcomes. As you say… there needs to be a multi level approach. (Lol.. everyone switched to paper straws!! Job done. I suppose people have to start somewhere!!)
Re: ” (Lol.. everyone switched to paper straws!! Job done. I suppose people have to start somewhere!!)”, or no straws. I’m going out to pull some expired plants and plant Fava bean seeds in their place. I learned from the documentary to always have something growing on your bare soil plots.
Also, there are several Half Moon Bays around the world. The closest to you is in the South island of New Zealand.
All the best and stay healthy.
Carla
Yes! As soon as you leave something bare… the weeds come through!! I need to be organised enough to do cover crops although mulching over winter as I have just done seems like its really helped… some good stuff going on in those plots!
Have a lovely week!!
Finally got around to watching this movie. I LOVED IT! Thank you for the suggestion.
Hi! Oh I am so glad you saw it and really loved it too!! Didn’t it feel hopeful? And doable!!! Thanks for letting me know!