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Jun 22, 2022 · Watch an environmental film that gives hope for cutting-edge solutions to climate change. Learn from three leaders who challenge the status quo and inspire you to participate in the restoration of this beautiful Earth.
The Need to Grow is a 2019 documentary that explores the challenges and solutions of the food system in the face of climate change and soil depletion. You can buy or stream it online on Amazon Video or other platforms.
- Narrator , voice
- Ryan Wirick, Rob Herring
- 2019
- Rosario Dawson
with Farmer Rishi, master plant expert, teacher, and gardener extraordinaire. Learn to grow food in stackable towers for an abundance of food in the smallest space imaginable. Plus, get a peek into a hidden backyard food forest of fruit trees, vegetables, and herbs.
- There’S Hope
- Green Power House
- Small Space, Big Yields
- Girl Guide Misson
The Need To Growtells us there is hope, and there are solutions. We can find a way out of this mess, and we all need to take the time to watch this movie to find out how. The film, narrated by Rosario Dawson, follows several environmental champions, from a 6-year-old food activist trying to ensure her future to a never-say-die micro-farmer and a br...
Michael Smith has invented the Green Power House, a facility that takes industrial waste and transforms it into renewable energy and organic soil amendments, such as biochar. Biocharis emerging as one of the best solutions to climate change. The byproduct of this venture is electricity, enough to power 100 homes every day! The greenhouse structure ...
Eric Cutter is a micro-farming expert and shows viewers that there are valid alternatives to conventional farming and that growing fresh food in cities is possible. He uses vertical hydroponic towers to grow 40 plants in a couple of square feet. The method uses less water and less fertilizer than conventional agriculture. The result is delicious fo...
At the age of 6, Girl Guide Alicia Serratos of Orange County, California, already understood that we need to connect with our food to appreciate it. The movie follows this bright light as she pushes the Girl Guide organization to sell non-GMO cookies and introduces her friends and community to organic gardening. She is inspiring in so many ways and...
Oct 13, 2019 · The Need to Grow: Directed by Rob Herring, Ryan Wirick. With Erik Cutter, Rosario Dawson, Douglas Gayeton, Kathryn Kellogg Johnson. The Need To GROW follows pioneers of cutting edge technology as they fight to localize sustainable food systems and regenerate Earth's dying soils.
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- Documentary
- Rob Herring, Ryan Wirick
- 2019-10-13
Food Documentary | The Need To GROW | United States. EXECUTIVE PRODUCED AND NARRATED BY ROSARIO DAWSON. SAVE THE SOIL. SAVE THE WORLD. WATCH THE FILM. TAKE ACTION. We have an estimated 60 years of farmable topsoil left on the planet... But the solutions are already here. CLICK TO WATCH THE TRAILER. > Click here to own it on DVD or Blu-Ray!
With only 60 years of farmable soil left on Earth, “The Need To Grow” offers an intimate look into the hearts of activists and innovators in the food movement: an 8-year-old girl challenges the ethics of a beloved organization; a renegade farmer struggles to keep his land as he revolutionizes resource efficient agriculture; and an accomplished v...