Know Your Food: The Farm as Teacher
The Farm as Teacher: Living Differently Through Food and Farming
A screening of The Big Raise and conversation with Martin Ping, Executive Director of Hawthorne Valley
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What does it take to start a farm when you've never farmed before?
Join us and find out on Tuesday, October 21st, for our next Farm to People Know Your Food event in collaboration with the Ceres Food Film Festival.
We’ll start the evening off with a screening of the film "The Big Raise," a documentary that follows BBC journalist Alexis Rowell and his partner, Blanche Lepetit, as they transform their lives by leaving London to build a permaculture farm and learning center in France.
It's a story about learning by doing - solar panels, forest gardens, composting toilets, the works! - and discovering that a farm can be more than a place that grows food. It can be a place that serves as a classroom.
**Film runtime: 40 minutes, French with English subtitles
After the film, Martin Ping (Executive Director of Hawthorne Valley) will join us to talk about farming as education, the relationship between soil and community, and what it means to work with the land rather than against it.
📅 Tuesday, October 21 | 6–9 PM
Film starts at 6:30 PM
📍 Farm to People – 1100 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn