GROWING SOLUTIONS: SOIL, WATER, FARMERS, SEEDS, ROOTS
GROWING SOLUTIONS: SOIL, WATER, FARMERS, SEEDS, ROOTS explores how regenerative agriculture offers real-life solutions to challenges plaguing farmers, including water scarcity, soil degradation, and the ravages of climate change. Regenerative agricultural models rebuild degraded natural resources by mimicking Nature's eminently resilient prairie ecosystems. Includes appearances by GROWING A REVOLUTION authors David Montgomery and Ann Bickle.
Director: Leo Horrigan
42 mins
Country of origin/production: US
Recorded Q & A follows the film.
BUZZ KILL
There are over 4,000 species of native bees in North America, many of which are in decline due to factors such as urbanization and habitat destruction. Their plight is overshadowed by the invasive but agriculturally significant honeybee. “Save the Bee” campaigns have grown in popularity, but they focus on domesticated honeybees, while the native bees, so critical to our ecosystems are lacking conservation attention. This film explores the tension between efforts to save native bees and their habitat and our dependence on the invasive honeybees.
Director: Brooke McDonough
15 mins
Country of origin/production: US
Recorded Q & A follows the film.