Living With The Land is one of my favorite Disney attractions too! And as you've stated near the end of the video, not just because it's relaxing, but also because of how it's one of Epcot's original attractions that's still up, and running to this very day, and not heavily butchered with something much more generic, gimmicky, and only there just to sell merchandise for the sake of it. Despite a handful of issues, it represents agriculture very well, and does an excellent job of teaching its guests about agriculture around the world, and how they can also make a difference on Earth! I'll be so disappointed if it ever gets replaced with something bland that has nothing to do with what once made Epcot so fun, original, and special, like several of the other past rides from the park.

This has always been a "can't miss" attraction for me when visiting EPCOT. I remember years ago walking into the Land pavillion and cast members were showing off large fruits and vegetables that were grown in the Land.

Your vids are the highlight of my week! They are such high quality for a channel of your size. I’m just waiting for the day your channel blows up, keep up the good work!

Took a coworker to EPCOT on a work trip last year. This ended up being one of his favorites.

Definitely agree as I have gotten older and the more entertainment-centric model has taken over Epcot, I appreciate this ride a-lot! I hope some day Disney will update it to show the advances in these fields w/o losing the message behind the ride.

Living with the land is definitely a technology showcase and not necessarily a tour of practical solutions. That being said, there have been many practical/ish systems developed that could be showcased. But, then they run into proprietary systems and/or business partnerships and those can always be sketchy. I remember the NASA centrifuge grower and I'd love to see something like the FarmBot integrated. But, that is more of a personal solution rather than a large scale system that The Land seems to focus on.

Wow, this is the first video I found from you and I am obsessed! I actually have a special place in my heart for Living with the Land, it literally was how I decided my college major, biotechnology. In fact, my classes just recently talked about how biotech and their impact on the agriculture industry. It really just seemed like KZfaq just recommended me the perfect video at a great time!

I have to imagine that Diz execs collectively forgot this exists. It amazes me every few years when I make the trip and see my favorite ride has remained unspoiled. You would think the higher ups would take a lesson from the longevity of this attraction: an appeal to education and humanity is far more timeless than the latest trending IP. Treat your customers like engaged people eager to see and experience outside concepts!

You convinced me. I wasn’t sure if I would go on this ride when I go to Disney for class, but I’m sure to check this one out!

Extremely underrated video of yours! I went to school for environmental science and media analysis. if I had the time, this would be the type of thing I’d make videos on myself. This scratched my brain in a very good way.

This is definitely one of my favorite rides at Disney. Very well designed and engaging throughout the ride.

Thanks for this video! I love Living with the Land! Last trip to Disney, I took the Behind the Seeds Tour. It was amazing and I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in the ride (once tours hopefully resume operation). I think hydroponic gardening could definitely be used effectively in the future to supplement heavily or even replace traditional farming practices. I have both a raised bed traditional garden and a hydroponic garden modeled after the ones at Disney. The hydroponic always outperforms the raised bed. It is also less prone to damage from foraging deer and insect pests. If I had the system inside a greenhouse like commercial facilities probably would, it would be even more protected from damage.

Thank you for this. I entered this ride at epcot a couple of months ago because I has some free time and ended up enjoying it more than most other rides. It goes really well with Epcot’s theme of learning, innovation, and community. I really enjoyed the examples shown, even if they might be questionable. Love your channel!

I too enjoy this ride and count it among my favorites.

Just a matter of time before they replace Living with the Land too... Wall-E maybe? lol

My Dad took me to see this when I was a kid, and I ended up writing my graduate thesis on the topics I learned that day.

I recently had "The Land" salad at Tiffins made all from produce gown at Epcot, and I have to say it was an amazing salad. The vegetables were so fresh with perfect consistency and flavor.

Thanks for the great video! I’ve loved Living with the Land since I was young and it’s a “must do” for every Disney trip. Thanks for the time and thought you put into this.

I always wondered about this topic, glad a channel as unique as yours was able to tackle it.

Great content and presentation! I just subscribed. Thank you for your obvious attention to factual detail.

Of all the rides i went to on my recent trip to Epcot, I cannot miss out on living with the land ride.

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Comment to benefit the advertisement of this video via the algorithm. Also, I really enjoyed this ride when I was at Epcot, being a suburban gardener I find this sort of video to provide ample edu-tainment.

“Just Listen To The Land” is the greatest song in Epcot history

you have FABULOUS production quality!!!!!!

Thank you so much for this video. The Land is my favorite ride at Epcot and I have so many wonderful memories of it. I even took the behind the scenes tour with my mother.

This is really interesting! I'm kinda glad my sleep schedules messed up so I could catch this once it was uploaded lmao I didn't have much of an opinion on living with the land before. I'd heard a lot of people talk about it and say they loved it, but since I haven't seen it myself yet I didn't really understand it much. Now I'm just a lot more excited for whenever I do get to experience it because it's really interesting to get this sort of perspective on it and understand the attraction a lot better as a whole

14:16 This was the best part of Horizons. In this section they blew in the scent of oranges since they were supposed to be cultivating orange trees in that future farm.

Great video. I love Living With The Land. Original EPCOT Center was amazing and maybe my all time favorite theme park. That said, the part of the video that featured Horizons made me sad again. It's all these years later and I'm still bummed that they closed that attraction. It was so inspiring and really embodied EPCOT. In my opinion closing Horizons was the worst Disney park decision ever. Well, it was until they closed The Great Movie Ride.

This is an incredibly well made video. You have a new subscriber my friend!

This is amazing. I really enjoy your videos please dont stop keep it up

I've been to Epcot countless times throughout my whole life (grew up in Orlando and still live there) and I've never been on this ride! I'll definitely have to go on it next time I visit Epcot

This is by far my favorite video of yours yet. I just recently discovered your channel and while I do find some of your perspectives a tad pessimistic, even those are filled with relevant insight. As for this video, I’m biased towards this ride as it beats every other ride in all of Disney and any other park I’ve been to for that matter. A great coaster can bring your body along for the trip, but Living With the Land inspires the mind long after you exit. I have 7 plants I’ve been growing for years now that I bought from this attraction. You’re insight into the practicality of these methods was fantastic. Still, I think you spend so much effort on large scale industrial practicality that you forgot to mention individual applications for families. Not all change takes place on the macro level and enough micro transactions can lead to substantial changes as well. For example, my family and I are building a backyard fish pond with plumbing to water our seasonal gardens using ideas of concept and behind the scenes plumbing lessons we learned on the Behind the Seeds tour. And it’s all because of this ride and the inspiration it gave us while we rode this attraction again and again. We’re not all Elon Musk types after all, but I feel like Living With the Land truly impacts people on an individual level that no thrill or IP ride can so we don’t have to change the lives of millions, but rather just our own. Anyway, thank you for this video. It was an absolute treat and has me even more excited for completing our home project.

Currently I’m in Mongolia, as an English teacher in Ulaanbaatar. I’m going to grad school soon for public policy and international development, and I must say being in an arid country where little agriculture is possible, vertical farming would be a great boon both for human health and the economy here. As you said, it is about initial costs with many of these new techniques and technologies, but the developed world should be looking to fund these projects in developing countries to incentivize them to move away from the traditional and more destructive methods of industry and energy.

I want to do strawberry towers next year.

Great thing to do with the fish waste is to compost any of the dead fish from aquaculture and use the dirty water whenever you have to clean the tanks to fertilize plants because the nutrients that is in the dirty water from the fish waste makes a great fertilizer I know this because I work in a aquaculture laboratory and that's what we always do with the fish waste

My favorite place to go to cool off and relax

12:50 is the Only NFT I am willing to trust

My mom had a small aeroponic tower like those in living with the land. The plants grew like crazy, I highly recommend aeroponic/hydroponics for small home gardens, if you can afford it. The one problem is if the power cut out for any reason-the plants would start shriving up within hours. Luckily they could usually bounce back after it was turned back on.

Epcot's living with the land has been peddling their hydroponic farming tech for over 40 years but where are all the urban farms using this technology? I have seen one in the Bahamas and perhaps Singapore. What they need to do is find out ways to grow steaks in lab dishes and mickey pretzels on vines using fish poop for fertilizer. That is how they grow lettuce for Epcot salads don't they?

I always loved tis ride. It's my favorite in Epcot. When my son was young he loved it too, and was always entranced by the ride and wanted to go on it over and over.

Fantastic video, how does this not have more views

MY FAVORITE ATTRACTION!!! That and the exchange student girls of World Showcase

Excellent video! And I agree with you, we're already seeing a lot of the showcased technology being implemented, and it will only become more widespread in the future. Maybe it was impractical and hard to scale up in the 80's, but it's been 40 years, and the technology is now practical and efficient.

5:56 made me jump out of my skin

My favorite hot sauce in the world comes from a Florida bussiness that grows their peppers using hydroponics. I wonder how the two Bobs of Disney would retheme Living with the Land...

Thanks for another deep dive. Living of the Land and Epcot as a whole (not really world showcase) feels like a Tomorrow 2.0 but more on the community or global level. It has a county or world's fair level presentation while opening the visitors eyes to alternative farming techniques. After 40 years, it would have been nice to see these farm to table methods literally practiced on the Walt Disney World property. Could these exhibit been the look behind the scenes of the sourcing and procurement of the food that is utilized on property. And this could have been a full cycle study. I am not the advocating a full sustaining community, but more of an exploration. I can understand how these exhibits could become obsolete over time, if left on the same script. But these labs and exhibits could be active studies with the input from universities and industry. It would seem logically that this attraction with the healthy cultivation of food would be a nice complimentary discussion of nutrition and the maintaining a healthy body. Discussion and inspiration make these attractions relevant today! But first listen to this message from Cola-Cola.

I remember the first time I saw Living with the land, it was sponsored by Kraft Foods. I also remember discussion the topic with my then son, while we are lunch there.

The sound track of this video is perfect for the atmosphere of the video is there specific artist that made these songs like the first soundtrack used.

I loved Living in the Land as a kid and was surprised that it was pretty much unchanged when I visited again 20 years later. I know one of the things said about my country in the attraction (Saudi Arabia) turned out really bad. They were talking about how Saudi Arabia was turning the desert green with new technology but by the time I visited again, I knew for a fact the program had failed and was being phased out by the government. In the end, it was too water and fertilizer intensive and the country had depleted its water aquifers chasing food independence. Sad, but the country is focusing more on smaller scale cash crops now.

This is also probably my favorite ride at EPCOT.

Thanks for the vid and I feel the same as you. However thier techniques shown are not the real future of agriculture. Its more like "Growing food with robots," rather than Living *with* the Land. Im in no way shaming what they're doing which is leagues away from current big ag, but as you've stated before, it needs an update on its technology to be more legit. I encourage anyone who loves this ride to do the Behind the Seeds tour, very worth it!

Are you gonna do a review of that new Spider-Man ride and Avengers land at Disneyland? Because Disney is in trouble I saw the footage and honestly wtf was Disney thinking? I understand you probably not gonna be better than the IOA, but this is embarrassing

The short answer is that it is possible to farm with these methods, the long answer is that the big corporations who control Big Farming aren't going to change a damn thing unless it makes money for them, or if the EPA forces changes. It would be nice if everyone could have their own little plot of land to at least supplement their pantries, and it would be even easier to grow with techniques like hydroponics, but that's not even allowed in many towns (the right to grow is actually on my town's ballot this year).

I miss the original Listen to the Land song...

Those low cost high yeild farms are not going to be sustainable in the future unless they make changes. The soil erosion is bad.