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In Search of Soil

In Search of Soil preview from The Seedling Project on Vimeo. This is somewhat outdated—not that I don’t love it, but it’s a bit on the old side (June ’07? where does the time go?). When I started making this documentary I promised myself to stick with it. I said, “This project may take ten [...]
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Andamarca

A selection of images taken on an eight-month stay in Andamarca, Peru to learn about ancient farming methods from people who are farming the same way their ancestors did.
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The Seedling Project

In ancient times the Incas fed an empire with marginal land utilizing sustainable farming techniques—even managing to store 3-5 years worth of extra food in case drought, hail or frost ruined a year’s crops. These methods must be documented before time irretrievably alters them and the knowledge is lost to us and future generations of [...]
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