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 This is somewhat outdated—not that I don’t love it, but it’s a bit on the old side (June ’07?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 even if it took ten whole years! [...]
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.
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 [...]