A UK documentary film which will go on a journey with farmers to explore soil health & farming with nature - release date Jan 2024 - Screening details in 🔗↘️
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*Drum roll*
We’re extremely proud to present our new
#filmtrailer
. Huge thanks to award-winning creative agency
@Chinagraph_L
for producing it for us. We hope you love it as much as we do. Feel free to leave comments on our YouTube
Calling all you
#soil
lovers - which one is the healthier and more ‘active’ soil? What can you see? We filmed 🎥 these two samples in Lincs, 1 meter apart - a spade full from the field and one from the margin, near a hedge.
🚀 CROWDFUNDER IS NOW LIVE Please share, send, shout and scream about it!
Let’s get this film made. You’ve all been amazing following our journey. We have finished filming & are ready to create a stunning piece. 💚
#fundraising
#crowdfunding
@JRfromStrickley
🎥 new born calves and James’ quiet way of working with them - amazing that the mother was not bothered by the crew. We 🎥
@JRfromStrickley
& Ben Thomas chatting in the barn - we learnt a lot about dairy farming
With the ‘dream team’
@Groundswellaguk
- this time 3 years ago we attended for the first time and proposed to the crowd our 🎥 idea. Since then we’ve created a full feature film, screened it over 300 times at cinemas, on farms & beyond and tomorrow we will launch next stage …
Sharing our 🎥 journey over the last year. Without all of you, and the hundreds of creatures we have met, none of this would have happened. 🙏 for all your 💚 and support.
⭐️Let’s create this film ⭐️
Recently we got chance to watch two really good documentaries about ‘regenerative’ agriculture
They aren’t in competition - but thought I’d review them so you can choose whether to watch them and which you might like
“Farmers get 10% or less of our food pound.. The supply chain has to play fair”
@vickihird
who featured in our 🎥
@sixinchessoil
& also brilliantly wrote four interludes in our new 📕
WATCH & READ
@5m_Books
🚀🚀 We’re very excited to announce the Six Inches of Soil
#book
“How to Heal Our Soils Ourselves and Our Communities Through Regenerative Farming”, produced in collaboration with
@5m_Books
. Pre-order here . Foreword by
@wigsandwords
💚
Today we're announcing Six Inches of Soil's first
#globalscreening
at
#COP28
in Dubai, on Saturday 9th December 2023.
The film will be screened as a main feature in the
#ActionOnFood
hub in the
#bluezone
, a UNFCCC managed site open to accredited party and observer delegates
Sending a huge shout of
#soil
💚on
#IWD24
to the wonderful women who’ve helped make this film, on camera, behind the scenes, helping with screenings & the wider
#regen
network. We salute you all. Watch this clip showing the inspirational Marina O’Connell & one of our ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Adie
We’re so excited that our
#communityscreening
programme has started. Look at this map! We’re blown away by how many screenings many of you wonderful people have already booked. More info re how you can book a screening coming in our latest newsletter very soon so stay tuned 👀🍿
Happy birthday (yesterday) to the absolute legend that is our producer
@mackenzieclair2
. One of the hardest working and kindest people you will ever meet. We love and salute you
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Today we're announcing Six Inches of Soil's first
#globalscreening
at
#COP28
in Dubai, on Saturday 9th December 2023.
The film will be screened as a main feature in the
#ActionOnFood
hub in the
#bluezone
, a UNFCCC managed site open to accredited party and observer delegates
❤️ seeing
@annarachjackson
on stage
@baseuk
We have been privileged to follow her over this year, to see how much she has learnt with her dad
@acjackson59
@pinkpigfarm
and what her vision for the future is. A lover of soil 🪱, farming & nature. A total ⭐️
Today we’re celebrating the incredible success of our beautiful film. Check out these
#filmscreening
stats to date. Thanks to all of you who have booked a screening, been part of the
#panelsessions
, audience members 🤩 Check out the 🔗🌳 for screening dates.
@picturehouses
next💚
Check out our latest stats!! We want people from all walks of life to see the film so they can understand how important
#soil
is, so if you want to screen the film at your workplace, school, uni, community… follow the links in our bio to book tickets/screenings 🎟️🍿🪱
It’s a big week for our fabulous film. Like beautiful mycelium it just keeps spreading 💚 Tomorrow night is the first
@picturehouses
screening
@CamPicturehouse
. We’ll be celebrating what we’ve achieved and some of the team will be on the panel. Pictures will be taken 😁🎬🍿
Meet our 3 new entrant 👨🏽🌾, & hear from food & farming experts, in our teaser trailer. We are 🎥 into early spring 2023 & then the 🎞 should be finished by end of 2023. We are SO grateful 😊 to everyone who has supported our journey - we are now
#fundraising
for post production…
We’re thrilled to have been invited to screen the film last night
@yeovalley
for employees at the company’s HQ. Thank you to co-founders Mary & Tim Mead 🙏🐄 Lots of fab cow chat 💚 Listen to Tim talk about the film in this video
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#carbonpositive
#yeovalley
🤎🤩This is the final shout out to our fabulous
#crowdfunder
supporters that made donations over the past couple of days right up until our deadline this morning. From the whole team thank you so much your support has been immense 🙏💚🙏
Tim
@parker419
is one of life’s amazing people. Last time we saw him he was entertaining us with fantastic stories at the ORFC over a pint. Hope we can do that again soon. We are all sending so much 🧡 Let’s all support Tim & his family at this time.
A great farming friend
@parker419
has sustained a life changing injury and will needs financial support to move forward with life .One way the farming community can show their appreciation towards a wonderful friend is leaving a donation here:
Thank you.
📣 GREAT NEWS - we have just been accepted onto the
#SaveOurWildIslesCommunity
Fund & our crowdfunder has been extended by 6 weeks!!
All pledges will now be live matched by the SOWI Fund at 2:1 until we receive £5,000 from it - ie it means if £20 given we receive £60 🎊
We are 😀 and grateful 🙏 our crowdfunder went so well. We are now editing, composing music, creating animation and planning screenings. If you want to screen 📺 the 🎥 , sponsor a screenings, be part of the impact campaign then sign up via our website:
This week, decision-makers gather for the government’s Farm to Fork summit. Will
#FarmingVoices
be heard?
This film puts farmers at the heart of the debate. What challenges do they face, and how does a resilient approach to farming support real food security?
Lovely to speak this morning to film team from
@sixinchessoil
on one of my favourite subjects - food, farming and soil.
Great to see
#agroecology
getting such attention
📣 As we enter our final week, with your generosity we have raised over £15,000. Today we are so excited as we have been offered match funding from
#theateamfoundation
. This means for any new donation given this week The A Team Foundation will double it. We are SO grateful 🙏
🥁🥁🥁DRUM ROLL🥁🥁🥁
We’re excited to announce that the film is being shown as part of
@picturehouses
#GreenScreen
, 💚🍿touring 13 cinema venues, with a live panel conversation following the film. Find out all the details here 👉
Can I recommend this book by the great observer and listener Marianne Landzettel, especially to you who are wondering what
#Organic
#RegenAg
can offer you but haven’t made the leap. Examples of pioneers all from different situations but hopefully something that you will recognise
#crowdfunder
REWARD ANNOUNCEMENTS 💚
We are working with 12 fantastic NGO partners who have helped us from the start with research, development and creating a factually correct story. 2 of them have very kindly donated 🤩prizes. To find out more head to
We visited
@RoyalAgUni
Cirencester to meet with our student advisor
@waramll
. Kindly Dr Nicky Cannon, Associate Professor of Agriculture, chatted to us about
#Sustainability
curriculum & how the uni is preparing their students to face the
#ClimateEmergency
. & 🎥 Soil pit!
🚀🚀 Watch
@DragonLFilms
unbox the
#sixinchesofsoil
📗📗 It launches next Tuesday 30/4 so not long to wait to get your hands on a copy 💚🪱 Huge thanks to Jeremy Toynbee
@5m_Books
for bringing this beauty to life creating a
#regenfarming
handbook
In
#devon
speaking with local farmers about their experiences based on lifetimes of work in the field, they had a broad range of thoughts. Many are sceptical of
#regenag
We need to represent these views, alongside those set on ecological transition
#stuckinthesystem
#feedus
We had a fantastic
#filmscreening
at Rheged in Cumbria on Sunday night 🍿
🙏🙏to Claire Logan-Stephens & her team who co-ordinated the whole event &
@CazGraham1
who facilitated the panel session. Lots of lively
#food
&
#farming
discussion with focus on
#regeneration
Not only is it
#booklaunch
day but the newsletter has just hit your inboxes 🚀📗 How we spoil you 😁 Checkout this brilliant review of the book from
#soil
legend Gabe Brown 🪱🪱Find out how you can buy your copy by following the link to the newsletter 👉
“We have seen what food systems designed to achieve relentless economic growth & profit maximization do to the environment, farming communities, & our health, & it's not good," Dr. Steven McGreevy, an assistant professor
@utwenteEN
Fantastic first day of filming with Adrienne Gordon, Sweetpea Market Garden on
@thospearson
farm, Cambs. 35 volunteers, 57 pears 🍐 & apple 🍎 trees planted along edge of Adrienne’s 4 acre market garden. We will be following her over her first year.
#agroecology
#marketgarden