Back to Roots Farm is a first generation Jamaican-Canadian family owned farm. The film showcases their holistic and natural based practices to grow vegetables and raise free-range goats, sheep, and laying hens. The film also discusses how they use garden style models to promote a more balanced ecosystem on their farm.
Subjects: Food Technology
-
Depth of Field – Films About Farming – Ferme Fiola Farm
Ferme Fiola Farm is a family-owned and operated farm on the 120-acre Fiola family homestead, located in the Franco-Manitoban community of Ste-Geneviève. They raise and sell pasture-raised lamb and wool products using sustainable practices. The film showcases their regenerative practices, carbon capture, and the importance of nose-to-tail farming methods.
-
Depth of Field – Films About Farming – Backwoods Buffalo Ranch
“The Backwoods Buffalo Ranch” is named after the farmers’ Metis heritage and the bluff of beautiful spruce in the “backwoods”. They raise Bison, pastured pork, free-range chickens, horses and milking animals. This film focuses on their farm operations and discusses the importance of animal welfare and rural communities.
-
Depth of Field – Films About Farming – Grazing Days
Grazing Days produces and sells grass-fed Angus beef, pastured pork, and pastured chicken by direct delivery in the Ottawa-Gatineau region. The film focuses on rotational grazing, carbon capture and farming as a way to solve the climate crisis.
-
Depth of Field – Films About Farming – Ferme Coopérative Tourne-Sol
Ferme Coopérative Tourne-Sol is a 15-acre ecological farm that produces certified organic vegetables and seeds. Founded in 2005 by 5 young farmers keen to make a living from sustainable agriculture, the cooperative continues to grow with new employees and co-op members. The film showcases the co-operative model and how the farm connects the community with local agriculture while contributing to building a resilient food system.
-
Depth of Field – Films About Farming – Ferme Marcel Goguen Farm
Ferme Marcel Goguen Farm is a diversified operation featuring 6 acres of apple trees and 4 acres of mixed vegetables, along with small livestock including hens, ducks, geese, pigs and a horse. It is a family farm started in 1778, around the arrival of the first Acadians to the region. The film showcases the apple operation, and discusses the importance of small farms and rural communities.
-
Depth of Field – Films About Farming – Corn Hill Nursery
Corn Hill Nursery is family owned and operated for more than 40 years and is one of the largest production nurseries in Atlantic Canada. The film showcases the Nursery operations and discusses soil health.
-
Depth of Field – Films About Farming – Spring Tide Farm
Jessie and Rebecca MacInnis are sisters and first-generation farmers and together they operate Spring Tide Farm, where they focus on mixed vegetable and cut flower production, growing in fields and greenhouses for Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) members, farmer’s market, and wholesale. Their farm is certified organic and they strive to adhere to the principles of agroecology. The film showcases their farming practices and discusses the importance of community.
-
Depth of Field – Films About Farming – Taproot Farm
TapRoot Farms is a mixed veggies, fruit and livestock farm (free-range hens for eggs, and pastured animals for meat and wool) using organic, agroecological and regenerative practices. The film discusses sustainable farming practices, sheep shearing and migrant workers.
-
Depth of Field – Films About Farming – La Coopérative Ferme Terre Partagée
The Coopérative Ferme Terre Partagée is a worker cooperative in Rogersville, New Brunswick. Founded by four members in 2018, it produces organic vegetables and embraces farming that is in relationship with the land. Its products are sold almost entirely through organic baskets and local markets. Its members see agriculture as a political gesture that allows participation in an international movement of agroecology and that aims at the food sovereignty of communities.