Watch "Kiss the Ground" Movie Launch Free on Youtube Tonight ( Sep 23 '20) Regenerative Agriculture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emfG6ehpE4U

https://movieallday.com/kiss-the-ground/

This looks good.  I put it on my list. I'm looking forward to seeing this.
John S
PDX OR

Also on Netflix.

Just watched it during our rainy day here.  They did mention the word permaculture once....I was wondering if they would and they slipped it in.  They could have mentioned it a lot more since so many folks in the show were permaculturists, but I guess once counts.  Decent movie.  I hope enough people that see it follow us all down the rabbit hole and deepen their understanding of what is happening and what has to happen.  We have to pick up the pace!!!

Greg Martin wrote:Just watched it during our rainy day here.  They did mention the word permaculture once....I was wondering if they would and they slipped it in.  They could have mentioned it a lot more since so many folks in the show were permaculturists, but I guess once counts.  Decent movie.  I hope enough people that see it follow us all down the rabbit hole and deepen their understanding of what is happening and what has to happen.  We have to pick up the pace!!!

I can testify that even a small mention--or no mention--is often enough to get people searching. Something like 10 years ago, my husband and I watched Fast Food Nation. It was free on Hulu (which was also free back then), and I saw Joel Salatin. I don't know if the movie even said anything about permaculture, but I saw Salatin raising animals in a respectful, ecologically sound way, and thought, "That's so cool! I want to pasture animals like that!" And so I looked him up. And found out about permaculture and how that was the term for all this ecologically sound food growing/raising. And here I am!

Movies like this are a powerful way to reach out and teach more people about permaculture.

I'm wondering if anyone knows of any longterm impact this film has had since its release.  It's been 3 years now.  I'm only just hearing about its existence.

If you look into the biochar forum, you can see that many people are experimenting with and using biochar, to a very positive effect.  I'm not a genius on the scale of that guy in the film, but I can experiment with stuff and learn to grow things better.

John S
PDX OR

https://www.agdaily.com/insights/perspective-propaganda-of-kiss-the-ground-overshadows-good-points/

One mixed review from a farmer here.  A regenerative farmer, who didn't appreciate the film's criticism of non-"regenerative" farmers.  I didn't think that was the main point, just that farmers could save us from carbon apocalypse where other draw-down solutions just can't scale or haven't actually been developed yet.  But what I take from this is that farmers could be very insulted by criticisms, and focusing on the solution without criticizing could win over more hearts and minds.  (I haven't watched more than 20% of it so I don't really know the content).

There’s a sequel!!

“We made it bigger. And famlier.”

Also this time it has Jason Momoa, which is just awesome.

And I think that was Leah Penniman too but too small on my screen to really see.

This came in from Allan Savory institute email list.

I hope it has some more updates on conversations among farmers this time, but the trailer looks like mostly rehash.

Better world book documentary please!!!