To discover indoors this Wednesday: the adventures of John and Molly, these city dwellers who have become champions of regenerative agriculture in California. A film highly recommended by the director and writer Cyril Dion, French voice of Everything is possible.
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“It’s a dream! We would like all farms to be like that!” He’s right, Cyril Dion. Everything is possible, indoors this Wednesday, frankly spin fishing. And the pear, and the apricot, all 100% organic.
“In this slightly depressing moment in life when we are crushed by the climate emergency and the collapse of the biodiversity, I find it great to have little moments of oxygen where we see great people doing things that work “, explains Cyril Dion, who lends his voice to the French version of the feature film (The Biggest little farm in VO).
Molly Chester is the chef. John, her husband, documentary film maker (including this one). Ten years ago, eager to give their dog Todd a better life and clinging to their dream, “build an ideal farm in complete harmony with nature”, they leave their apartment in Los Angeles to settle in the Californian desert. The earth is dry, the ground is dead.
In the spirit of “Tomorrow” and the Bec-Hellouin farm
Neither cutesy nor moralistic, the film traces the ups and downs of these two novices of regenerative agriculture, both organic, low energy consumption and high yield. “We were confronted with many problems … and each time, nature offered us a solution”, they sum up. Their fruit trees covered with snails? Ravenous ducks to the rescue. Hard, dry soil that doesn’t hold water? Humus and earthworms in ambush.
Like Charles and Perrine Hervé-Gruyer, these market gardeners from Bec-Hellouin (Normandy) considered as the French ambassadors of permaculture, John and Molly Chester, hummingbirds from California, manage to make their farm ecological Apricot Lane an oasis “extraordinarily lush, productive and beautiful”, word of Cyril Dion.
“We find the spirit of Tomorrow recognizes the one who won the César for best documentary in 2016 with Mélanie Laurent. An exciting story that shows a way of responding to the problems we face. These days, if agriculture is moving a little in this direction, it would not be bad! We had the opportunity to tell the Cannes film festival, cinema has this function: to allow us to imagine a different future and to give us the impetus, the desire, the energy, the creativity to do so. ”
Read also :
⋙ Ariane Ascaride, Luc Jacquet, Cyril Dion … More than 250 personalities call on the world of cinema to act in the face of the climate emergency
⋙ Permaculture: nature as a model
⋙ VIDEO: The market gardeners of Bec-Hellouin, ambassadors of permaculture
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