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"Biggest Little Farm"

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2 questions

Watch the movie "Biggest Little Farm" during class. While you are watching, consider the following themes and concepts:

Industrialized Agriculture vs. Small Family Farms

Monoculture vs. Agroforestry

Using pesticides vs. Organic gardening

Uncertainty of the future, regarding drought, fire, rain & flood

Gardening in harmony with nature

To kill or not to kill predators of livestock

Food webs/chains

Biodiversity & Resilience of ecosystems

Economics of farming

Crowd-sourcing/fundraising

Roles of working dogs/animals

Volunteerism & farm community

Urban vs. Rural

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Pitanje 1
1.

Either during or after the film, write down a list of all the organisms that you saw in the film. Afterward, try to draw a food web interconnecting everything, including humans and what they eat. You can generalize some categories such as "fruit trees", "covercrops", and "vegetables". Put circles around the animals/plants that were put there by the farmers, and underline the parts that came in from nature.

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Pitanje 2
2.

After watching the film and seeing life through the eyes of farmers in California, did you find yourself seeing anything differently or thinking about things differently than you did before? Take some time to write a few paragraphs in response to anything about the film that you found thought-provoking.

Optional read: The article below discusses the economic realities of Apricot Lane Farm and other small farming operations.

"Two New Films Paint Starkly Different Pictures of Farming in America"