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Subjects (65)
Agriculture (47)

Organic farming (9)

  • Seeds
    Seeds
    Moïse Marcoux-Chabot 2020 32 min
    Nature awakens and the food self-sufficiency project takes shape. Preserving the region’s ecosystem, however, demands awareness-raising efforts.
  • Communities
    Communities
    Moïse Marcoux-Chabot 2020 32 min
    Viewer Advisory: This film contains scenes of animal slaughter..

    Fall has come: the harvest festival, hunting and butchering season. The village gets ready for winter. As ties between communities are strengthened, the Gaspé is changing.
  • Embers
    Embers
    Moïse Marcoux-Chabot 2020 30 min
    With a little bit of resourcefulness, people can confront the greatest challenges. And when the environment is under threat, a peaceful resistance springs to life.
  • Harvests
    Harvests
    Moïse Marcoux-Chabot 2020 31 min
    With the right vision in place, the land has real potential. In farm fields or in the streets, strength in numbers matters above all.
  • Territories
    Territories
    Moïse Marcoux-Chabot 2020 37 min
    An emerging generation of farmers unites around a common cause: developing initiatives that favour sustainable and rewarding community-based agriculture. Viewer Advisory: This film contains scenes of animal slaughter.

  • Roots
    Roots
    Moïse Marcoux-Chabot 2020 33 min
    Spring is the season for working the land and planting. Thanks to a cooperative approach and mutual aid, everything runs more efficiently.
  • Island Green
    Island Green
    Millefiore Clarkes 2013 25 min
    This short documentary takes a look at the changing face of PEI's agricultural industry. Once famous for its spuds and red mud, this tiny island province now has higher than average cancer and respiratory illness rates. Is there a link to industrialized farming? Rather than dwelling on PEI’s worrisome monocropping practices, Island Green dares to ask: What if PEI went entirely organic?

    The stirring words of PEI-born poet Tanya Davis are coupled with beautiful imagery and poignant stories from the island’s small but growing community of organic farmers, reminding us that we can rob the land only so much before it robs us of the nourishment we need for life. Island Green is ultimately a story of hope and healthy promise.
  • The New Alchemists
    The New Alchemists
    Dorothy Todd Henaut 1974 28 min
    This short documentary profiles a community engaged in developing sustainable living methods, including food production and small-scale solar and wind technology, on a farm in Massachusetts in the 1970s. Well before sustainability was a mainstream concern, these prescient innovators attempted to create a vision of a greener, kinder world. "Think small," say the New Alchemists. "Look what thinking big has done."
  • Sovereign Soil
    Sovereign Soil
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    David Curtis 2019 1 h 31 min
    Set in the northern wilds surrounding the tiny sub-Arctic town of Dawson City, Yukon, Sovereign Soil is an ode to the beauty of this ferocious, remote land and the wisdom of those who’ve chosen to call it home.

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