Date/Time
Thursday 14 March 2024
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Categories Cinema
Book here now: Donation £10 • £5 or free if you prefer – please pay what you can*
PLEASE NOTE the earlier start time than usual of 7pm.
Doors and bar open from 6pm, with organic soup (thanks to the Husbandry School) and bread (thanks to Briar Bakery) available for free/donation. Please come earlier and meet the panel and others in the audience before the film starts at 7pm.
Six Inches of Soil follows three new farmers on the first year of their regenerative journey – Anna Jackson, a Lincolnshire 11th generation arable and sheep farmer; Adrienne Gordon, a Cambridgeshire small-scale vegetable farmer; and Ben Thomas, who rears pasture fed beef cattle in Cornwall. As the trio strive to adopt regenerative practices and create viable businesses, they meet seasoned mentors who help them on their journey. They’re joined by other experts providing wisdom and solutions from a growing movement of people who are dedicated to changing the trajectory for food, farming and the planet.
Six Inches of Soil is the first full-length campaigning documentary feature film that tells the untold story of the UK’s regenerative and agroecology movement and its benefits to soil. With the first global screening at COP28 and UK screening at ORFC 2024, the film aims to inspire UK farmers to adopt regenerative agroecological farming practices and encourage consumers and policymakers to support their efforts. Its narrative, engaging animations, and interviews with leading figures, it tells the story of our soils and our food and farming system through the eyes of three new-entrant farmers and examines how we can replace this with a resilient and localised agroecosystem.
Six Inches of Soil has been produced with an independent team including, Director Colin Ramsay, Founder and Director of DragonLight Films and Freelance Producer Claire Mackenzie. See the full team here.
* See Access, Tickets & Finding Us for more about why there are three ticket prices, plus other useful info about coming to events at Ashburton Arts Centre.
“People’s views can be quite polarised in the debate around food production and the environment, you’re either a farmer producing food or you’re a conservationist looking after nature. But here at Treveddoe we want to prove that you can do both”. Ben Thomas, Beef Farmer, Cornwall