The Need to Grow

Important movie that everybody needs to see. I am sad to see down putting reviews. Do these people not realise how important documentaries like these are? Poignant and uplifting, it really hits home at what we are doing to our ecosystem and how important it is to grow and eat organic for our health and the health of our beautiful, magical world. I really felt for the people when they lost their complex to foul play and I cried for them. They put so much heart and soul into what they do and it must have been heartbreaking. I had a foreboding feeling that was coming. I am relieved that despite the odds, they rebuilt to continue their wonderful work. Amazing and wonderful documentary, full of soul and promise. It tells us how important our world is and how imperative it is that we go back to natural, sustainable farming practices and again, how important organic produce is. Growing things form nature is a beautiful thing. Let us regain our health and the health of our world. A very timely documentary.

The rest is filler. They start with this Green Machine biochar system, which is interesting. But they pad it with a story of an urban farmer that is far from unique. And a Girl Scout protesting the use of GMI ingredients in their cookies. This is interspersed with animations depicting the issues with big ag & soil, which are fine. But then in the last half, the Green Machine burns down, the urban farm fails, as does the Girl Scout's campaign. Do yeah, the first 20 minutes is worth a look. Don't bother with the rest.

This documentary addresses some important issues in a decent way. I can't agree that the Green Power House is actually a closed-circuit system, as it requires biomass input. The filming itself wasn't very engaging. Overall, worth seeing.

Inspiring movie showcasing inspiring people who are contributing to change in the world and showing us how we can be involved in the solutions too. It is no secret (though not yet widely known) that industrial agriculture practices are toxifying land, water, air and food supply. A side effect of their industrial practices is a scary loss of topsoil yearly... food is made possible by soil. Lucky for us we can support and regenerate our soils and thus our local ecosystems. We can all contribute to the healing that needs to happen. This documentary tells the stories of people who are doing that and shows us how we can contribute! I highly recommend watching.

My partner and I watched this film a few weeks ago and were incredibly moved by it. I'm a holistic nutritionist and coach (and lover of nature) and I truly appreciated all of the information, stories, and beauty in the film. And while I had anticipated that it would be informative, I hadn't expected the incredible emotional impact it would have-as deeply as I experience nature, I had no idea how much I would cry during a film about soil! Thank you to the whole TNTG team for doing what was clearly a TON of hard work to provide this film to people. The information in this documentary is absolutely vital, and I hope every single human watches it!

I really agree with the sentiment of this film that soil is really important. But after about 20 minutes it just seemed to repeat the same statements about soil and got really tedious. I leant how good biochar can be but I leant little else that is practical or useful to my life. If I didn't already appreciate how bad modern farming practices were then perhaps it would have been more useful. There are three main interlinking 'stories' but they are not told in a way that takes you on the journey that these people have gone through in a satisfying way. More interesting would have been to go through the journey from beginning to implementation for these stories and seeing how practical challenges were overcome. But there is limited detail on this and it is not in order. But worst is that there is no inspiring or positive outcome for these projects. The whole thing feels depressing. There is a teaser that things work out okay at the end but with no detail. That would have been an interesting story to follow. Ultimately if they cut this down to 30 minutes without the repetitive statements from experts it might have been okay. As it is, I am sorry to say really did not enjoy watching this.