WATCH: Rebecca Hosking: Post-Peak Farming
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This really fascinating film by farmer Rebecca Hosking is a must-watch for anyone concerned about the future of farming in a post peak oil world. Rebecca, a nature photographer and filmmaker, returns to her small childhood farm, where she becomes aware of the looming oil crisis and how it will affect not just her farm, but all farms, and indeed the world’s food supply. To paraphrase one farmer, we’re approaching not just another energy crisis, but a full-blown energy famine. It’s time to look at our options.
(h/t transitionus.ning.com)
RH: Basically, this sandwich, like most of the food that we’re eating today, is absolutely dripping in oil. And the way that our food production is today, if we didn’t have places like this [points to a fuel processing plant], then in this country we’d pretty much starve.
April 21st, 2009 at 3:24 pm
So great a film! Well done and thanks a lot for the hints and encouragement.
How to get this in translated in German?
June 1st, 2009 at 9:43 am
This beautiful film about a critical world issue is important for all to see and would be stunning on a big screen. It needs to go on world tour or at the least be shown to our communities.
October 1st, 2009 at 10:22 am
THANKS!! WOW, I belive in a great organic future..
Is it possible to get it translated to norwegian?
October 31st, 2009 at 7:51 am
I recorded the “Nature Watch” film when it was shown on Tv in the Spring this year (2009) and I have watched it several times. It is as enthralling now as it was the first time I watched it. The film was brilliantly made - full of fascinating information, bright and alive. In particular, I think of those aerial views of a patchwork of fields - full of crops, but all dead. I’d like to beg Rebecca Hosking to share her ongoing experience of her “Farm for the Future”.
October 31st, 2009 at 7:53 am
I recorded the “Nature Watch” film when it was shown on Tv in the Spring this year (2009) and I have watched it several times. It is as enthralling now as it was the first time. The film was brilliantly made - full of fascinating information, bright and alive. In particular, I think of those aerial views of a patchwork of fields - full of crops, but, at soil level, all dead. Nothing could be more sobering. I’d like to beg Rebecca Hosking to share her ongoing experience of her “Farm for the Future”.