https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBPLrr9Hph0

The Food Forest Farmers

Syntropic farming is a new and ancient regenerative agriculture practice that can be implemented in any region, in any climate, in limitless ways – even in your own back yard. For over a decade the Lotz-Keegan family have been implementing permaculture practices to regenerate a degraded hillside into an abundant food forest of native and exotic trees that feed their family, their community, the wildlife, the soil, and their souls.

Combining the practices of syntropic agroforestry with the principles of permaculture and their own deeply thoughtful approach to land regeneration, food growing, and lifestyle, this family is partnering with nature to create a humming diversity on the land and a positive story about the role of humans in an eco-system.

PermaDynamics https://www.permadynamics.net/

#food #food-growing #food-forest #syntropic #agroforestry #syntropic-agroforestry #food-forests #regenerative-agriculture #permaculture #regeneration #food-growers #KlausLotz #PermaDynamics #HappenFilms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3qMIFQLK8c

Building Indigenous Food Sovereignty with the Hua Parakore Organic Framework

Hua Parakore was established in Aotearoa New Zealand by Te Waka Kai Ora, the National Māori Organics Authority. It provides a framework using Indigenous values – Māori principles – for producing natural food without chemical inputs or GMO.

It also encapsulates the Māori worldview in its approach to how food growers are verified as Hua Parakore, with principles that require practitioners to deeply consider such things as their connection with the land, its energy, the many species living on it, and their community.

This documentary provides an insight into Hua Parakore from the perspective of one of its most knowledgeable practitioners – Jessica Hutchings was one of the researchers who helped develop the framework.

Te Waka Kai Ora https://www.tewakakaiora.co.nz/

#food #food-growing #food-sovereignty #organic #indigenous #values #principles #HuaParakore #TeWakaKaiOra #Māori #NationalMāoriOrganicsAuthority #NewZealand #JessicaHutchings #happenfilms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtBGQUSj37s

Together We Grow

Together We Grow (2022) is a 40-minute documentary telling the story of Common Unity Project Aotearoa.

Introducing a thriving hub helping to build resilience into its local community by #growing, #sewing, #repairing, #sharing – you name it, Common Unity is doing it!

Too many of our communities, here and around the world, are facing #housing-crises, food-insecurity, social-isolation, and more. In addition, the multiple impacts of the Covid pandemic and #climate-change are current and ongoing. How can we most effectively confront these challenges, and help our communities thrive in an economic system that leaves many feeling trapped in poverty?

Founder Julia Milne and her team have created a completely replicable model for developing strong, connected, resilient communities – a model that could be put in place across thousands of communities in Aotearoa and millions of communities across the world. They’ve proven it can be done, this film was made to help them share the story!

#TogetherWeGrow #documentary #film #local #community #thriving #hub #food-growing #resilience #resilient-communities #JuliaMilne #HappenFilms #docu-films

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFom7vJiSzQ

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity

Indiegogo Campaign:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/a-simpler-way-crisis-as-opportunity#/story

The low-impact way of life that is emerging at Wurruk’an is currently being captured on film as part of a documentary called A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity, written and produced by Jordan Osmond (Happen Films) and Samuel Alexander (Simplicity Institute). The documentary is set for release in April 2016.

The purpose of the documentary is to unflinchingly describe the overlapping crises of industrial civilisation and explain why a ‘simpler way’ of life, based on material sufficiency not limitless growth, signifies the only coherent response to those crises. The dominant mode of development today seeks to universalise high-consumption consumer lifestyles, but this is environmentally catastrophic and it has produced perverse inequalities of wealth. Even the privileged few who have attained material affluence rarely find it satisfying or fulfilling, because consumerism just leaves people feeling empty and alone. Consequently, our forthcoming documentary seeks to show why genuine progress today means rejecting consumerism, transcending growth economics, and building new forms of life based on permaculture, simple living, renewable energy, and localised economies.

But what does that mean? And how should we go about building a new world? Mainstream environmentalism calls on us to take shorter showers, recycle, buy ‘green’ products, and turn the lights off when we leave the room, but these measures are grossly inadequate. We need more fundamental change – personally, culturally, and structurally. Most of all, we need to reimagine the good life beyond consumer culture and begin building a world that supports a simpler way of life. This does not mean hardship or deprivation. It means focusing on what is sufficient to live well. The premise of our documentary is that a simple life can be a good life.

One of the main concerns driving this documentary, and the Wurruk’an project more generally, is the uncomfortable realisation that even the world’s most successful ecovillages have ecological footprints that are too high to be universalised. In other words, even after many decades of the modern environmental movement, we still don’t have many or any examples of what a flourishing ‘one planet’ existence might look. This is highly problematic because if people do not have some understanding of what sustainability requires of us or what it might look like, it will be hard to mobilise individuals and communities to build such a world. A Simpler Way represents an attempt to envision and demonstrate what ‘one planet’ living might look like and provoke a broader social conversation about the radical implications of living in an age of limits.

We hope that this documentary will challenge and inspire people to explore a simpler way of life and to begin building sufficiency-based economies that thrive within planetary limits. If you feel this is a worthwhile film for social change, please support our project by donating to our Indiegogo campaign and sharing the link with your networks.

#ASimplerWay #documentary #film #life #vision #opportunity #consumerism #economy #environment #movement #local #community #people #grassroots #simpler #way-of-life #permaculture #simple-living #renewable-energy #localised-economies #living-of-grid #off-the-grid #off-grid #resilience #sustainability #Wurruk’an #Wurrukan #SamuelAlexander #JordanOsmond #HappenFilms #SimplicityInstitute #docu-films