The best documentary I watched in a long time. I have a very high respect for our farmers. I wish this documentary would be shown to middle schoolers nationwide.

Made in 2016, but only coming out now in 2024 widespread for us all to easily watch on YT. Why has it been suppressed for the last eight years?

I feel so obligated to also comment that this regenerative model of farming would drastically cut into the big chemical companies pockets. They donate millions to political campaigns. Also discussing growing your own seeds, most people aren't aware THAT'S NOT LEGAL, a literal CRIME with most major seed companies, has been for decades. Today's farmers do not OWN the seeds they buy. They're just using them to produce a crop. They can not use any of their crop for future seeds. I met a very elderly man in Alabama that was arrested and jailed for refusing to follow this. Again, like virtually every aspect of agriculture, the mega wealthy CONTROL nearly every aspect of it. Until we can have major campaign finance reform, and break up the very few agriculture and chemical producers that are clearly monopolies, nothing will ever change. Both political parties are equally liable for allowing this atrocity.

What an amazing documentary. I too grew up in a small Illinois farm much like those. I'm maybe 10 minutes from the end of this video, and the elephant in the room with this entire situation, is the massive donations the 4 major food producers pay to our politicians on both sides, to keep the regulations, and subsidies where they are. Only THEY get wealthy. Only their shareholders are making record profits, while the consumers are being squeezed more and more. I also agree one of the best documentaries I've seen in a very long time. Thank you.

Every American needs to watch this documentary…there are corporations that are literally patenting certain foods that make it illegal for individuals to grow…that’s a problem! Being disconnected from where your food comes from is a disaster! Blessings

If you have any critique of this video, go back to the very beginning of it and see how every civilization before ours has doomed itself by destroying the soil. Do not let history repeat itself. We have a choice right now.

This video is the kind of life I grew up with. We did not use commercial fertilizers and no herbicides that poisons the soil. Instead, we rotated crops with wheat, hay, corn, different kinds of beans and oats. We also planted half acre of buckwheat for the bees to work in later in the summer. All the farmers around us used all the poisons and planted corn in the same field for twenty years. If you don't rotate crops, the corn bores will damage the ears on the corn. What one crops puts in the soil the next crop needs to grow. We had cattle and used the manure for fertilizer with no meds used in the cattle as others do. The restaurants in and around Chicago are fortunate to have farmers to bring in nutritious food. I have read where much of the food in the grocery stores have glyphosate in them, so people are consuming poison, no wonder cancer is so prevalent.

I’ve lived in Iowa a long time, and when I see the fields, I always wonder, why don’t they grow something people can eat.

This is one of the best documentaries I've ever seen. I really respect these people and hope they continue this amazing journey and God Bless Everyone of Them.

Excellent documentary ! Keep up the good work❤😊

The big shock is going to be (already started in some places around the world) when our ability to produce food at the industrial scales we currently do, starts to break down. At this point anyone is going to be happy they spent some time and thought on how to produce some of thier own food. You can do it in a city Scape (many projects already exist if you check around your locality), so don't need to be deep in the countryside.

This started because we were told about the starving children all over the world and we had to feed them

en Argentina esta pasando lo mismo. los agricultores con la soja y el maiz, a su vez tienen retenciones y el monocultivo, asi y todo siguen, 400 millones de litros de glifosato se le echa a la tierra. por suerte hay mucha gente que trabajan de forma sostenible. pero el daño que se ha hecho es muy grande, gran documental.

Phenomenal video. Make this a mandatory part of school curriculums across the country.

In all honesty I needed this video after so many other videos that highlight the aspects of what’s wrong without solutions. This is informative, wholesome, and part of the solution. For health and community. Simply fabulous and bravo to those farming and to those filming. Appreciate what you’re doing and what you’ve done.

I also bake my own bread and I endure endless criticism because people wants it when it is free and they become insulting when asked to pay for it. One guy was on the radio and was telling everyone not to eat my bread and that it was not good because it was not free. When questioned why he said it doesn't taste like my mother. And I discovered that his grandmother sprinkled sugar on the bread. Only poor people feeds their kids sugar bread. Those people are no longer my friends!

There a lot of people in the USA and the other countries that are doing regenerative agriculture. Iowa is the 2 in the nation to do cover crops and has restored 416,000 wetlands . Iowa is number one in conservative tillage .Pigs and chickens can’t live off of grass to long they have to have grain with grass .Cows and goats and sheep can live off of grass . As for 2024 for the crops of 2023 50 percent went to humans and 36 percent went to livestock and 12 percent with to other material . If every one went that way it would be better for the environment . And bring fresh food into local grocery stores . There is a lot of misinformation on agricultural.

I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt that you’ve done research on this matter, read a bunch of books, watched movies and attended seminars. I just have some questions for you, why do we have such a huge supplement industry in this country? Why are the same people who are in chemical fertilizers and pesticides the people who make the medicine we need to survive the food were eating? Do you really believe that as a nation we are eating that much fast food compared to the other meals we eat? We are the most unhealthy nation in the world despite the fact that we spend the most on medicine.

There is more wisdom shown in this film than can be found in all of D.C.

Bonjour, en France nous suivons le même chemin et ça ne dérange personne ! ....pauvres humains 🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞

Saw a YT-clip from Leaf of Life where they looked at runoff and by just by creating a 10m barrier, with trees and bush, between water and planted products you decreased runoff by.. sorry do not remember.. a lot. This 10m border just kept dirt and chemicals to stay.

that was an amazing programme being from the uk ,weve had problems for years with our farming practices it all started when we joined what was then the common market we weree promised it would be better ,but look at this we import thousands of litres of milk from france we try too export lamb too france and what did the french farmers do set fire too the trucks which took the lambs too france they were willing too let them burn alive the drivers as well,our farmers not all of them though took part blocked the docks from which the french milk tankers entered into the uk and opened up the tankers taps and allowed the milk too pour out yes they got into trouble. but land here is being sold for developing and we are still importing rubbish from thousands of miles away. the uk as its known but during the 2nd ww war we were called known as gb kept the country alive there never was any where near the commercial chemicals we have now, farmers kept pigs, or cattle they were graed outside during the summer and brought in in winter ,in spring when they out the barns they were kept in would be cleaned as through winter they would of been deep littered and that was stored in a heap in one of the many fields they had and in the fall that would of been spread on the fields left for month or two before being ploughed. one local farmer near too me for the passed 2 years has grown 4 fields of clover,vetches etc and every so often just tops it too keep it tidy but this year he will mow it and plough it into the soil his fields are so sandy the clover is helping too put nitrogen back into the fields and it also helps with holding the soil together so its not blown away or washed away ploughing it in will also feed the soil,theres too many farmers putting tons of artificial fertiliser on their fields,thats due too not many of them are keeping livestock any more

The thing that pests me is that fruits in the supermarkets, like pears, apricots, peaches & their likes, are always hard as billiard balls & will stay that way even if you boil them, their smell is gone & a sign like "fruits" would look rather out of place The most scary symptom is that flies, that love fruits, are nowhere to be found

*******As a person born in the 50's I believe we in America U.S. are 5 generations removed from growing our own foods*******

Lovely story. Lovely folk! Selling to restaurants is a good start in regards to awareness. However, the people who eat in restaurants with exotic menus, aren’t the people who need a better food infrastructure. But they are the people who need to reject the corporate lobby- paid ass hats in office….& force better options. Monsanto (& the like)should be publicly shamed & jailed. Not sure what my part is…yet

Amazing video.

Joel Salatin has been regenerative farming for decades too and has written a few books.

Excellent!

Need new laws that Stop poisoning people

i like this, and share it, after i watch it twice, i love it... knowinng me and 5 older siblingd were stolen by the state of michigan on lies because we were completely off gird minus the electricity on the houses my grandma and dad built... just to shut us down they ruine peoples lives on lies...

Love this

Shared... big time...

As a farmer and a person that has a large garden and grows most of my own food I personally understand wanting the connection but most people couldn't care less and romanticizing local and small farmers who produce almost none of the food doest help. Food is and has to be a commodity to create the right incentives to feed 8 plus billion people without that you would quite literally have 3 billion people starve and that's much worse than being disconnected from your food. Gardening is the most popular hoppy in America so many people do grown some small % of their food. If you went 50 years back to many more small inefficient farmers you would need the cost of food to more than triple and people are already very angry for food to go up 30% or so in 4 years. The cost of the average Americans food as a % of their income is the lowest in history and of any country it's about 5 % and even Canada pays about double that at 10% most people in developing countrys pay more that 60% plus. Global foods are commodities so if we held back on production global prices would skyrocket around the world. It's not even close to worry it to starve a few billion people so we feel more connected with our food. If you want to feel more connected move out of the city and have a house in the country and have a large garden and grow your own food.

Oduševljena sam Vašim načinom života i rada, tako sam i ja odrasla i verujem da će biti primorani svi da tako rade. Srdačan pozdrav iz Srbije🙋

Very good. Greeting from germany

politika amerikane. 100 probleme. shtepija e bardhe. shum bukur.

Très intéressant. Ces personnes sont passionnées

Reminds me of a Canadian film..." To Build a Farm"....I believe....shows the ups and downs....of the small farm....the co-op group is a great idea....since not everything turns out perfectly all the time and ad a supplier you need the produce for your customers.....

As a market gardener in Henry County Illinois. I would like see more content and be involved with your project.

Great content. My wife and I would love to have a small farm similar to the one in this videos as our house on 1 acre is just not enough room. However, the ground in my county goes for 11k an acre right now, and it's just a pipe dream to own a 40 acre piece of land. There are too many farmers with too much money in my area.

Ein wunderbarer Film. Menschen, Nahrungsmittel und Natur werden durch ein Überbewusstsein zusammen gehalten. Idealisten halten alles zusammen.

I agree with not torturing animals

Those bread look amazingly tasty!

*******Brother and I just traveled 1800 miles to Upstate N.Y. to see our Last Living Aunt on both our mother and fathers side (between their 2 families there were 21 siblings) Of course not including our parents the Aunts & Uncles grew with spouses to having 38 Aunts and Uncles. The ONLY item I purchased on the trip was 1 Gallon of 100% Pure Maple Syrup*******

EVERY American needs to watch this. Phenomenal!

Most excellent doc!

Food as a commodity, sad but true. If you can make a profit from something, make it scarce..

So what do the restuarants do in the winter time, close down? I bet not. They buy food through the regular distribution channels which in turn get their food from big farmers in warmer regions.

Quando criança, minha avó tinha uma horta espetacular no restante do terreno de nossa casa, cerca de 800 m². Plantávamos hortaliças, frutas, algum milho e galinhas que se alimentavam das sobras, nos garantindo ovos frescos e orgânicos. Como neto mais velho brincava de ser agricultor orgânico, claro.

There would be a lot of starving people on this earth if we grew everything organically unfortunately. First world problems here.

Hold ON Farmers …. November gets closer by the day! Relief IS on the way

Silent spring turned into silenced humanity ! 🤬

Food is literally a commodity.

Where i live the local septic companies dump raw sewage on the hay fields which are then treated with lime.

A very entertaining documentary with a well chosen soundtrack and a let's get back to nature theme. In 2022 the government of Sri Lanka banned all chemical fertilizers. It ended poorly and they quickly changed their minds six months later after having to import food which devalued their currency causing extreme inflation. Apparently going green made them loose alot of green$$$.

1:27:37 very surreal

Man must be prepared for the higher price and better quality.

How much corn is grown for ethanol.....one hell of alot....

You will eat the bugs

Buy local, meet your local farmers, know how your food is raised

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So sad, so sad, while there are still countries self sufficient in their mind and knowingly about food relations from their soil, after 100 years only corn cultivation things might run like the Roman Sahara mistake

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It is about soil no drugs in the seed or soil

I'd rather pay more for better food...than pay more and more taxes for nothing in return....

AWESOME! ABSOLUTELY AWESOME PEOPLE AND VISION. SORRY TO SHOUT BUT I JUST WANT EVERYONE TO SEE THIS FILM AND HEAR THIS MESSAGE BECAUSE THE WHOLE WORLD NEEDS TO WAKE UP AND GET ON BOARD. I wish you and all your future generations the very best in keeping this dream alive.

Industrial farming is not sustainable! Now they have 3D printed meat! They going to have 3D printed vegetables?🤔 Doing everything for money 💰 doesn't create a future for future generations.😍 More greenhouse in America are key because people in Nebraska and Colorado are growing food all year around.🤩

"Einkorn" - translation from german is "single grain".....just saying....

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I think oatmeal does have gluten?

Gotta the random and misleading KZfaq climate change note

SUCH A GOOD VIDEO...! IF YOU ONLY GOING TO WATCH ONE VIDEO THIS YEAR..THIS IS THE ONE! HOPE YO ALL WATCH THIS VIDEO

a i thojmi lavren me plluqi. lavren me qite mah te mire. edhe mah paster.

Prachtig project en mooi om te zien. Moeilijk om op grotere schaal uit te voeren omdat het voedsel producten is voor een kleine elite groep. Als ik ervanuit ga dat er goede prijzen voor de producten gemaakt worden.

Be careful what your talking about their going to say you have mental health issues and start to poisen you throw you out of your job and confine you to home. You will lose all the people you know including your family. Force you to wear and think they way they want you too you live in a prison

Climate change. LMFAO.

Ok great. More of the same....

Please vote Kennedy 2024! 💜🥰

me toke kam mbete gjalle. puna mah randa ashte bujqesija

Using an ancient Allis Chalmers D-15 tells me these people are hobby farmers and have no intention of making any real money unless they can find suckers to pay them 3x market price for their "sustainable" food.

О МАМКА АМЕРИКА ДО ЧЕГО ДОКОТИЛАСБ УЖАС КАКОЙ НАДО ПОДНИМАТЬ СРОЧНО АГРОКУЛЬТУРУ СТРАНЫ ИНАЧЕ ЕДЫ НЕ БУДИТ

Wheat is gross!

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Whelp, you farmers voted farm tariff Trump. How'd that work out for ya? Just drove through Ohio. I see a lot of farmers posting Trump billboards. Guess you haven't learned your lesson enough

Most people cant keep a house plant alive . So industrial farming is needed .

You had me until you mentioned climate change

Nice footage and loads of crap, food has never been so abundant and cheaper, and it is due to modern agriculture. People do not know and do not want to produce their own food. I also grew up in 60s and 70s and I am a small grower today, but I am not that clueless.

FRENCH ?

​@arnaldobellucci9033 I'm not prepared to adopt a defeatist approach to problems, as such i will continue to engage in permaculture and more sustainable practices on my 1.5 acres. I do more than most with such resources and many would do well to try harder.

Bow to us Farmers or pay the consequences...jk or am I 😅

aka meh ju boh politikanve. politikanet. bujkutoni. ndreshoj edhe une poziten qkah meh boh nuk po dih

1990. imt 539. te ri pi fabrikes