
How to Save The World
A single farmer in New Zealand practices biodynamic agriculture, treating the farm as one living organism rather than a collection of separate crops and animals to be managed with chemical inputs. The film follows his methods and the reasoning behind them, framing biodynamics as a model that could be applied far beyond one farm if enough people took it seriously. Peter Coyote narrates, and the soundtrack comes from Mercan Dede, giving the footage of fields, animals, and daily farm labor an unusually meditative pace for an agricultural film. There is no on-screen conflict or investigation here; the case is built through observation of one working example rather than debate or statistics. It stays narrow and specific rather than surveying the broader biodynamic or organic farming movements, betting that a single well-observed farm makes the argument on its own.