Farm On

Happy new year, and happy birthday to FARM ON! The show is turning one year old, and I want to send a hearty THANK YOU to everyone for tuning in, and sharing these episodes with like-minded folks. As a documentary director and producer, STEVE SUDERMAN has spent the last decade immersing himself in intimate and personal stories of people going through life-altering experiences. This trajectory started with Over Land (2008), a portrait of his own family in crisis as they lose their farm on the Canadian prairies. The bulk of our conversation is on Steve's feature documentary, TO MAKE A FARM. The film follows five young people with urban backgrounds who decide to take up small scale organic farming. Facing daily challenges and overwhelming obstacles their first season on the land, joys and disappointments become a quiet manifesto for social change. To Make A Farm won the Santa Cruz audience choice award as well as three Golden Sheaf awards including Best of Festival in 2012. It was commissioned by TVO. Soon t