In a race against the end of farmable soil, three individuals fight for change in the industry of agricultural food production
Thursday March 3rd | 7pm
THE NEED TO GROW
The Need To GROW is a feature documentary following underdog leaders of decentralized solutions and cutting edge technologies to fix our broken food system and regenerate our planet’s dying soils. With an estimated 60 years of farmable soil left on Earth, more toxic chemicals sprayed than ever before, seed varieties going extinct, bees dying off, historic water shortages, epidemics of malnutrition, the time to heal our food system, our environment and ourselves is now. But can we feed the world without destroying it?
Shot over three years, the film offers an intimate look into the hearts of activists and innovators - an 8 year old girl challenges the ethics of one of the most beloved organizations in the country - a renegade urban farmer struggles to keep his land as he revolutionizes resource efficient agriculture - and an accomplished visionary inventor faces catastrophe in the midst of developing a solution that could change the world.
The Need To GROW delivers the most alarming research on why soils are so important to our ecosystem - it reveals not only the potential of localized food production models that work with nature, but more importantly, reveals our potential as active participants in an interconnected biosphere to become a planetary force to restore the Earth.