While I was making and traveling with Farmageddon, I met a lot of inspiring farmers doing very cool things along the way and I always hoped to go back and film what they were doing.
Chris Kerston was one of those farmers. He was managing a pristine farm, Chaffin Family Orchards in Chico, California. They have the oldest olive orchard in the United States and he had a beautiful model where the animals grazed in the orchard, and weeded for them and took care of bugs, and the orchards protected the animals.
I hope that you can take a few minutes and watch the short video I made about it. The goal: to get the attention of young aspiring farmers, and to encourage them to use nature to solve nature’s problems.
Hope you watch and enjoy!
Kristin
https://vimeo.com/85460718
Fantastic! Thank you 🙂
Right on target as usual Kristin! I will look forward to using this as a part of the education that I am doing through my Food, Health & You classes that I teach to high school students online throughout North America. Give my best to Joel next time you see him, we’ve missed seeing him on Polyface since GoFarmU.com expanded its operation to embrace the youth by moving just outside 2 university towns in Idaho. Rock’in On with Farmin’ – Pam
Nice. Animals are an integral part of the farm. My company processes and markets chicken fertilizer in the southeastern US.
This is so wonderful! It REALLY is encouraging to know this sustainably incredible method of farming is being done. Great interview with Chris and the whole video segment is really well done!
Chris is a total rock star.
What an awesome video – make me want to be a farmer!