The Call of the Land: Meet The Next Generation of Farmers | Short Film Showcase 

There's something magical about physically growing your own food and then eating it. It's a deep sense of satisfaction one feels.

Glad to watch this. Im 33 and spent half of my life living a slave life in the capital city of my country. Earning enough money just to pay bills and a little bit of entertainment. Until 3 months ago my business went down and i got back to my hometown and started a farm on my parents' land. Its been a life changing experience and allowed me to see the world in a different perspective

"The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings" -- Masanobu Fukuoka

Farming : most noble and honest profession in world .

Without farmers all profession will be nothing... Salute to all farmars you are the true hero's.

I don't have a farm, but I have a small garden and absolutely LOVE it.You don't need much space to produce a lot of food. I had never had a garden other than flowers before. I find growing food is something spiritual, I don't know how it happens, but it does. I can be in a bad mood, go out to the garden and something happens to my mood. I think the nature of mankind is to commune with the natural world and life around us. Grounding, or walking barefoot balances our energy. Growing your own food should be a part of every person's life at some point in one's life, Just in case you may need to one day.

This cinematography is AMAZING

I grew up on a farm and became a teacher. My father and his father were farmers. My brother continues to farm. I live in Washington DC and have had the opportunity to return every summer and share my roots with my children over the past 30 years. Those opportunities of going into the fields, feeding the animals and learning about how our food is grown are experiences they will never forget. I appreciate this film. And to this day I will say that farming is one of the most difficult mental and physical jobs one can enter into, but for a family unit and sense of accomplishment is can be the best career.

Sometimes I forget why I ever got interested in this kind of farming and why I wanted that to become my goal, but every now and then I get reminded by videos like these. Thanks!

My husband & I are 80 years young and have been living on our small plot of land and growing a small garden for all of our years together. Even as we were growing up our families have always grown a garden. My first job was in the onion patch and potato patch. Our grandmother used to say: "Lord, bless this year's crop and may there be enough for us as well as anyone who drops by." That continues to be our motto.

We left the US states to move to Puerto Rico to start this farming journey. We left good jobs and sold our house .I wouldnt trade it for anything in the world.

When i was a little girl i always wanted to be a farmer, it always was so beautiful to me. Then i let it go, i went with the path that youre now expected to take, but now as a young adult (27) i already feel my younger gils dreams come back. And im happy there have been people before me to help me along the way

So beautiful...greetings from generations of Indonesian farmers

I am in a farming based country India wer the lands, lakes , pounds r turning into real estates n high raise buildings most of kids haven't seen greenaries in their life as they grew up, like me. Rest of the farmers r struggling with the monsoon n government policies. Pls save farmers then only a country n its people could lead a healthy n peaceful life.

Something mainstream people don't recommend to kids for college... a degree in agriculture or botany, major jobs open for those fields..always.

My grandparents were farmers in Herefordshire England. I remember them well until the age of 16-17. The whole community in their day would be involved. I think a little less automation would revive the spirit of farming. of course that would mean a kind of shift in modern economics but I am sure a balance can be struck. Great video...loved it. Mark.

When i was a kid in the 50s, my Dad had turned the last 20 feet of our house's property, measured from back of lot forward, into a food garden. I was quite young but i helped (or thought i did) and learned, and loved doing it. Mom would send me out to the garden as she prepared dinner for certain things, and i was so proud when Dad nodded, (he'd shown me how to see what was ready and how to harvest it) and he let me go do it alone! When did this kind of education stop?

Hundreds of people, who never thought of farming, have and are moving toward farming as a profession every day. This is a step forward and a step that is going to help sustainable growth and development. These trends are helpful not only with the environmental situation but also for the economic aspects.

So beautiful. I am going to became a farmer one day. I am 16

This is the very reason why I wanted farming. I know I haven't started yet because I am still studying full time or masters but as soon as I will do teaching as a permanent instructor, I will do farming parallel to that.. I love life and fresh food...

The healthiest environment to grow up and live in.

I wish this documentary is updated to 2019-2020. I think many people are changing their view of growing their own food. Specially young people. I’m starting to grow our family food garden and it’s been an amazing journey. I still need to learn more. But in my search for knowledge I have noticed many young people interested in growing their food, organic farming and preparing healthy food. It’s amazing. I’m really enjoying this new chapter in my family life.

Farming helps us to reconnect with earth. At the end we'll feel peaceful & content.

I live in a big city of surabaya indonesia. And i'm a farmer, i'm using hydroponic technique. With very little space we can grow lot of vegie and fruit plant. And i love it.

I grew up on a farm watching my dad growing food and looking after farms every day and I will most likely become a farmer too.

Made my heart happy just to watch that. My grandparents were farmers and in my sixties now I'm growing food in my suburban garden. There's such simple pleasure in watching food grow, then picking and eating it. Really gets you out of your head.

This is why I moved out of Denver to Wyoming. We purchased 40 acres in Wyoming and started a garden and hunting with my son. it is great living.

Beautiful film. I love the concept of going back to producing our own food, having an own garden to grow plants in, or even a farm. I grew up in the countryside, grew up with a big garden and chickens, and ever since I moved to the city I felt like something is missing. Although I spent most of my life in the city. Now I have at least a large balcony, where I grow some herbs and vegetables, and I feel that reconnecting with nature for a little bit is making me so insanely happy. My mother recently told me, that I would have been a great farmer, and I felt this little twinge in me, for my grandparents had a small farm, and all they had done in the past is now gone. Now farming has become this kind of engineering I wouldnt feel happy with. Maybe one day I´ll have my own garden, and I can somehow reconnect with what I have lost. A part of my past, my culture, and nature itself.

I'm 36 and been small farming for a while....love it we eat 20% of our food from the back yard right now .that's pretty good

My heart is beating out of my chest with yearning. This is so beautiful. I want to be a farmer.

For me, food is everything, healthy food, healthy life.

As an early thirties person who just began farming, this video filled me with inspiration, optimism and joy. I hope we figure out how to inspire more young farmers!

I want to do this and I could do this but my wife shoots me down every time I mention it,sad thing is she complains about her job and gets headaches all the time but she still thinks I'm crazy when I say lets have a lifestyle change,I want a change because I am going crazy in the same boring job for 20 years,I got sick and had a lot of time off work and I didn't want to go back but she still can't see why I want to go back to the country,the anxiety is the worst,I think about this all the time,very frustrating.

A rare insight and example of how life should be for the majority of people. It once was and is now looked down upon by the people who want to rot in cubicles looking forward to their little break at the water cooler. We farm 5 acres of organic fruit and vegetables. We very much appreciate this wonderful video.

I am an accountant but I want to be a farmer. After being exposed to the real world of professional and industry. 🌻💕

This is so interesting. I wish it were a full length documentary.

you have the best camera angels

I myself never grew up with family members who farmed and I am extremely passionate about being self sufficient and farming my own produce and protein. I want to get back to my roots, do what my great grandparents did. I love this video.

it would be great like to make another video explaining where there is good land to farm on

This made me cry. I'm a 24 year old horticulture student and all I want is to run back to the land and foster a nurturing relationship with the earth and grow food. I've yet to find my tribe and it's very isolating. More of us are coming back to the garden.

I wish I had a small log cabin on a small piece of land and a small farm.

About 25 years back, in my MBA class, I was not just the odd one out for saying "I want to be a farmer", everyone laughed and probably looked down on me as a "looser"... today, I still have the plan firmly in mind, and I am moving closer to my objective.

Dont get me wrong, i liked the idea. But let's remember that this is wealthy Canada, ladies and gentlemen. It's far easier for Canadian farmers to live sustainable than in any other country. Canada and most of the powerful countries depend heavily on third world countries (talking in Capitalistic terms), for example, Canada has a monopoly on mining industry in my country: Mexico. Canada destroys hills and mountains to obtain minerals from our soil, profiting from our lack of control over mining policies. So, what happens when a third world inhabitant wants to be a farmer in a wealthy country like the guys in the video? you simply can't. The conditions and circumstances are totally different. In order to live sustainably we MUST understand our local society's inherent problems and vices, we cannot compare our realities with the reality of Canada or rich European countries that pillage third world countries. We must understand our reality and change it accordingly, and cease to believe eurocentric ideas that just do bad to ourselves. We, the people of poorer countries or regions, need to understand that our reality is different, thus, our solutions and eventual farming realities will be different from the portrayed in this video. So, be a little critical and don't believe that everything has to be as media portrays it. Sure, it looks nice and music makes me wanna cry, but let's be realistic and start changing our own context. And for the people of wealthy countries: its not enough to "live from farming", you must be socially responsible, YOU are responsible of the pillaging that your government does to other countries. Talk about it! Act against it! if you stay silent, all you are is a player in the same game. You cannot think that living off from the land inhibits your social responsibility, be conscious in every level! you are not rich coincidentally, it comes from many actions that your society tries to mask or erase.

I think I might be getting obsessed with farming videos... It's so peaceful being around nature.... Helping the environment... The harmony sings a beautiful song itself😍

Good to see the next generation doing this!

"get back in touch with the food because that's ultimately what you are" BOY have I been looking for that statement! I mean I've always heard "you are what you eat" but this time it really clicked for me.

Perfect video of exactly how I feel. And beautiful scenery too!

The sound design of this video is world class. So good.

Am 31 a scientist but I want to become a farmer. Am in London and grow veg everywhere in my flat and balcony.

Urban farmer here, over 3 tons of food grown on my 7800 square feet last year. 800 carrots 1400 strawberries aquaponics 3lbs garlic(strawberry companion) 152 watermelons from 60 plants 500 tilapia 1-3lbs aquaponics system 900 tomatoes 80 trees 22 banana bunches 100 papaya 200 mangoes 2 trees 50 heads of cabbage. +900 cucumber from just 70vines 100 peaches 4 trees 40 bell peppers. 200 Scotch bonnet peppers. 60 pineapple. 17 pounds of grapes; catawba, Concord and muscadine 40lbs pigeon peas. 10lbs purple cow peas. 20lbs string beans. 20lbs kidney beans. 120 Chicken eggs 30 duck eggs. I'm expecting more this year

It looks so idyllic, so basic and down to earth. Who doesn't want this!?

it's sad how farmers are some of the hardest working people out there. And they get paid the least, and they have so many hoops to jump thru, blessed is the hand that feeds you. one day we will reconnect with what truly matters.

Until the age 14 95% of my food was what we grew, then moved to the suburbs and that was over.

It is so wonderful to see that so many people all over the world seek for farming! my husband and I have changed our life for the beauty of land, sun, fresh air and moved from unbearable Moscow to the chernozem on the central Russian plain and are really happy about it! it's a shame too many people have to live a plastic life in the big cities, while the land in Russia is so cheap and rich..

permaculture is the answer

I cannot explain the high vibratory emotion generated by watching this. It is not just my highest dream ever, but also it is profoundly inspirational. Thank you 🙏

It's not uncommon to see millennials getting into farming and raising plants. We grew up in a time where a hole in the ozone layer, environmental degredation, and ecological disasters are a part of life. This is our way of helping the planet. P.S. Apologies for the double negative.

I appreciate any young person of this modern time of r/evolution that's willing to take a pause in these unpredictable times and farm to keep us alive. Much appreciated.

Beautiful photography

I am 35 and starting a market garden and RU-vid business. I'm hooked on the idea of working in my backyard instead of waiting tables!

I'm moving to Hawaii to work on a farm

I was never into gardening and the idea of it felt meaningless to me. Why do I need to waste water on flowers and bushes to just look at? Then I stumbled upon a video of a guy growing food in his small back yard. I was instantly inspired. THAT I can see doing and enjoying. It makes sense financially and helps cut down our carbon foot print. On top of that its an instant biology lesson for our child. It took an initial investment of $250 on materials, soil, and seed to start up our backyard. But after one year of harvest we've already made our money back and then some. We're talking garden beds, manure, soil (to amend the existing soil in our backyard), drip irrigation system for the whole thing, gloves, etc. We also live in the Bay Area which is friken expensive, so our backyard is small compared to most homes. After the initial investment, the only other money we have to put in it is basically buying seeds and watering them. For the price of one tomato, we grow dozens.

perfect short film

My neighbors are on a special diet on veggies and meat due to illnesses. They are struggling without processed foods. They asked what I eat. Fruits, vegetables and a little meat. Raw and baked. Simple and tasty. When you eat real food it tastes good. I have a membership to an organic farm. The taste of food that is picked the day you eat it is amazing.

The activity you have undertaking is praise worthy. But the solution to the modern day problem is bringing down the level of consumption which everyone knows is against the concept of economic development. It is a fact that the standards of developed nations cannot be replicated through out the entire world because this poor earth cannot bear that level of consumption. Every human being must take it as his duty to leave behind the same earth he used to live on to his successors and other living being.

Proud to be a farmer. It's not easy it's one of the toughest job in the world. Hats off guys

I do stock trading in the morning and farming at the evening. Pretty good balance.

3:05 we got there to preserve the food over the winter. That's a pretty big part of agricultural history.

This is beautifully shot and depicted but unfortunately not accurate to the majority of agricultural operations in the U.S. It also fails to display the many unromantic aspects of farming

Farming is our connection to the lamd and we are forgettimg it...i come from a farm and i live in the city now... Every time i can i escape to the outdoors cos i miss them like a breath of fresh air.

Totally correct, I am 27 living with my wife I started off by getting a couple herbs to grow and now I have a totally full greenhouse and 3 raised beds there is that much food that I am having to put it outside 🙈😂

2 thumbs up for the spirit of Farming !!! Being a farmer's granddaughter I too try to grow in my little space.

Id be a farmer too if I had a million dollars worth of land nestled in the mountains....

I was born in a farmer's family even while studying I did job at a farm, then I got married and we started small business, but farming is deep inside me and this short film is that farmer do farming again. Thanks for this wonderful video, one day I will be a farmer again.

land is toooooo expensive for younger people

This video should be shown to all government officials - from village, town, municipality, county, region, district, province, prefecture, city, state, country, etc They should promote and support the agriculture sector fully. It's very long overdue The education sector should play a big role too of emphasizing the importance of growing food to the students I've been harvesting okra pechay, and string beans from a mini garden for 2 months now and hopefully tomatoes, chili and eggplants soon!

Thats like actually very interesting made some life long ideas pop up

Inspiring 😘 New gardener here just started my mini garden.I feel the excitement and magic when seeds start .sprouting now waiting for my first harvest 🍆🍆🍅🍅🌱☘☘🌿🌱Thank you for sharing this video😘😘

very cool, but is more like next generation gardeners... looks more like lifestyle homesteading/self sufficiency to me.

Music for my ears 😌.. this is the real heaven ❣

to every farm we lose to shopping center and new home, the cost of food gose up

What an inspiring short film. I hope to do what they've done one day, but I live in the city of Chicago. How true of what they said about how farming isn't presented as a viable career choice for young people. We really have no control over the things we're passionate about. Very inspiring

Bill Mollison Permaculture! Yes!

Gardening is fun and a good hobby. Young people in cities seem to confuse gardening with farming - there is a huge difference. When hobby gardeners, growing their own vegetables etc. are always backed up by the wonderful Supermarkets, full of great fruits and vegies that we now have then it's a whole different situation - failures, which can occur often, do not lead to possible starvation or malnutrition. Water coming out a tap, a hose or sprinkler , compared to a pump and having to carry water to the garden beds is also a wonderful labour saver. Enjoy gardening but please be appreciative of the farming technology that goes into supplying the world with life saving food. These techniques are now available to any country and their politicians should allow their people to have the cheap electricity and stored water systems that make good farming possible. Regards.

People will.need land ..for this kind of fairy tale farming!

Beautiful landscape and farm

This is so overproduced it hurts.

It is wonderful to see this. Farmers are the true heroes. Look what they do !!!! They feed the world !

It's all well and good to have hippies growing vegetables in the mountains, good on them, but this won't feed the world. I wish it did but ,due to peoples lack of education, there are so many people in this world who can only be fed through large scale, intensive agriculture. The world has too many people on it and so we cannot all live "the good life". I work in intensive dairy farming in the UK and I have to say, large scale agriculture can be horrible, especially when it comes to animal welfare, but it is the sad reality of our population situation.

Lovely to see this interest in farming. I write and speak about food history and agricultural history, trying to get people interested in where our food comes from, and I do think there is increased interest in knowing -- but it's good to see interest in doing.

I just want to be a hunter-gatherer lol.

A beautifully written and inspiring documentary. Thank you for your dedication😊

Its funny how they show footage of them picking crops but not slaughtering their animals..

This video is so amazing. I just wish more people could be like these and produce more organic food.

I'd live off the land too...if I had an army of robot slaves to do the work for me. :c

God bless the people that do farming...thank you!

i am a farmer but dont like this :D

The cinematography is incredible

This is just such a lovely doc - tx for making it.

The sound is amazing! Great job!