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The Biggest Little Farm
They tried to build the perfect farm. Nature said: how about a balanced one instead? 🌱🐖
Who it's for
The film follows a couple through seven years of setbacks on a farm, making perseverance tangible: every fix creates a new problem, and they keep adapting.
Stuck→Hopeful
Feelings it meets
What it is
The Biggest Little Farm is a 2018 documentary directed by John Chester and distributed by Neon in North America. It follows John and Molly Chester as they leave Los Angeles, buy arid land near Moorpark, California, and spend about seven years turning it into Apricot Lane Farms, a working farm and biodiverse habitat.
Where to find it
Neon theatrical release (2019). Streaming availability rotates; check JustWatch.
Before you start
Heads up: Animal deaths and a mentor's death.
Age: Not verified (suggested 8+)
Do not say, "It is morning," and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a new-born child that has no name.Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, no. 235
