A fascinating documentary about a stubborn heretical visionary farmer, Peter Edwards, who overcame tremendous opposition to implement his method of "natural sequence farming" that emphasizes slowing the passage of water through the landscape with plants that act like a sponge - which then gradually releases water during drought periods. At 5:57 they describe all the plants he was cultivating, that were specially being blacklisted and removed by the government elsewhere at the time - willows, blackberry, etc that allow the landscape to hold back water.
It's also the story of an unlikely pairing of a stubborn visionary and a retired-jeweler-gentleman-
farmer who complemented each other in their quest to modify a 23000 hectare farm according to their methods, and finally got the attention of government with their remarkable success.
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