Sunday, 3rd November, 6.15pm
At Riverside Centre (Rangimarie Hall)
'Roots So Deep' is a four-part documentary series all about inventive farmers and maverick scientists asking if an underutilised way to graze cattle that mimics the way bison once roamed the land can help get farmers out of debt, restore our depleted soils, rebuild wildlife habitat and draw down carbon? Cattle have been seen as eco-villains for a long time. What if they can help save us from catastrophic climate change? This event will showcase two episodes of the new 4-part series.
An inspiring, positive, data-driven, honest, human, and thoroughly good-humoured film about adaptive grazing (regenerative agriculture) and its beneficial impact on ecosystems and farmers' pockets. The filmmaker gathered a team of 20 scientists across multiple disciplines, who completed a 10-year research project across five farm pairs. Each pair was made up of two neighbouring farms - a regenerative grazier and a conventional farmer. The results speak for themselves.
“What I like so much about these films is the genuine compassion and understanding shown for farmers, no matter how they farm. Peter Byck is a terrific interviewer, even of people who view the world from different perspectives. Anyone who wants to know what regenerative agriculture can do, in theory and in practice, will watch these films with pleasure and admiration for the hard work that goes into producing food.” -- Marion Nestle, Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, Emerita, New York University, and author of books about food politics.
“This is, hands-down, the best agriculture filmmaking I’ve ever seen. The characters are all so likable and captivating, the graphics are stunning, and I learned a ton about ecology... but none of that would matter without Peter Byck’s soul and empathy as storyteller.” -- Bill Weir, CNN
Other Screenings: growingradicles.org/rootssodeep or on facebook.com/rootssodeepnz
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