Filmmaker Mark Kitchell (A Fierce Green Fire) brings us the story of organic agriculture, told by those who built the movement. A motley crew of back-to-the-landers, spiritual seekers and farmers' sons and daughters rejected modern chemical farming and set out to invent organic alternatives.

This is not just a history, but looks forward to exciting and important futures: the next generation who are broadening organic; what lies "beyond organic"; and carbon farming and sequestration as a solution to climate change -- maybe the best news on the planet.

EVOLUTION OF ORGANIC is divided into four acts:

Act I: Origins - Looks at the beginning of the organic movement in California when the 60s counter-culture moved back to the land.

Act 2: Building Organic - Follows the development of increasingly effective organic farming techniques concentrating on the soil and the microbial life within it.

Act 3: Mainstreaming Organic - Organic booms, growing 20% annually for two decades.

Act 4: Organic Futures - The next generation of organic farmers as well as carbon farming and sequestering carbon dioxide hold out great hope for combating climate change.

86 minutes

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/234671040

"Highly accessible and inviting...Inclusive and balanced...Students, natural food enthusiasts, new and old farmers, and the general public will all have much to learn from this engaging and compelling journey through the history of organic food and farms." Brian Tokar, Director of the Institute for Social Ecology, University of Vermont