WIMMERA Landcare leaders hope a new film will create discussions about farming futures.
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Landcare will host a screening of the Polyfaces film, which focuses on an American farmer and his quest to change and improve his family farm.
Australians Lisa Heenan, Darren Doherty and their family made the film over a four-year period.
Horsham Rural City Landcare facilitator Wendy McInnes said the film would interest both producers and consumers.
“As a Wimmera Landcare event, we are hoping to inspire discussion about how we farm, and we can create a better farming future for the generations to come,” she said.
Ms McInnes said the film was set in northern Virginia at Joe Salatin’s Polyface Farm, which uses no chemicals and feeds more than 6000 families and many restaurants and food outlets.
Time Magazine has described Salatin as the world’s most innovative farmer.
Ms McInnes said a panel discussion would follow the screening.
Victorian Farmers Federation vice-president and Murra Warra farmer David Jochinke will lead the discussion, along with Polyfaces film producers Isaebella Doherty and Andreas Overdahl, Wheaton’s Store’s Jo Wheaton and Burrum Biodynamics’ Steve Walters.
The film will screen at Federation University’s Horsham campus on May 26 at 6.20pm.
The event is free but organisers said people needed to register online at wimmeralandcarepolyfacescreening.eventbrite.com.au or by calling Rae Talbot on 5382 9933.
Supper will follow the screening at Nourish’d eatery in Horsham.
