No-dig method at the Happy Pear Farm. Why not everywhere?

What if I told you most of the veggies you buy from the store and eat, contains… nothing?

Chemically fertilised, dead soil provides very little nutrition, but they look good. And that’s the kind of system we live in today.

But there is an easier, more efficient and environmentally friendly way to grow food. So why wouldn’t we do that a larger scale?

This is The Happy Pear Farm in Greystones, Ireland. Isak and I visited here when we were making the film about Harold and his broccoli sprouts, but I find this topic is so interesting that it deserves its own film.

The problem with today’s food system is that it’s all about money. Extract the most out of the earth for as little as possible. And when it doesn’t work anymore, we put more fertilizer in the soil which is like beating a dead horse to get it up a hill.

But the money isn’t everything. It’s also very deeply rooted in how we have done things since farming got industrialized.

This place is all about regenerative farming.

But there is much more to regenerative farming than this. And we only did one short visit here. But I’m convinced that this is the way forward. Growing things locally that are nutrious, taste good and helps keeping the biodiversity intact. With less work for more yield.

It should be enough incentive to change those big systems controlling most of the food production today. I want to make a full documentary on this topic.

Do you have any tips for me on who to talk to? Some local hero somewhere on this planet that does this or advocates for it? Or if you’re a filmmaker and want to collaborate on a project like this? Hit me up!