The largest small farm

"The Biggest Little Farm", "The Biggest Little Farm", is called Xinghua Lane Farm, located north of Los Angeles, covering an area of ??1,200 acres. But where is the big thing and where is the small thing?

This documentary, which took ten years to be filmed, completely fits my farm dream. The farm scenery is beautiful, the farmhouse is full of fun, the story is profound and enlightening, and it is recommended by friends who have a farm complex.

1. Why run a farm?

John is a well-known photographer, and Jasmine is a gourmet and well-known food blogger. The two have successful careers and are a typical middle-class couple living a comfortable life. The only drawback is that they have no children.

Later, the two took in a stray dog. Abandoned dogs are seriously insecure and very attached to their owners. As soon as the two went to work, the dog kept wailing at home, seriously disturbing the neighbors, and was eventually given a 30-day notice to move out.

When the couple adopted the dog, they promised that their home would be the dog’s last home and that it would never stray again.

Jasmine remembered her childhood dream of running a farm. In order to give the dogs a stable home where they could run freely, she decided to regain her old dream with her husband.

In my opinion, the dog was just the catalyst for the two of them to abandon their successful jobs and become farmers and women. The fundamental reason was to obey the inner call and the urge to get close to nature.

Deep in everyone’s heart, there may be a driving force to chop wood and feed horses, care about food and vegetables, and pursue poetry and distant places. After all, we come from nature and are children of nature.

2. How to run a farm

However, running a farm is by no means as poetic as imagined, and the hardships involved are hard to describe.

From a practical perspective, the couple are novices in farm management, with no experience, no skills, and no capital. If these difficulties cannot be properly handled, the farm dream is destined to be an illusion.

From an environmental perspective, operating a farm is inherently risky in today’s society and climate conditions. The profit-seeking nature of capital and the highly developed technology have led to the development of farm operations into a single-crop model, and the ecology is extremely fragile. Climate warming is causing droughts and other disasters to occur more frequently, and farms are facing disaster at any time.

However, as long as your thinking does not slip, there are always more solutions than difficulties. The two hired agricultural expert Allen as a consultant, and went through a series of tests such as soil improvement, crop cultivation, animal reproduction, etc., and overcame various difficulties such as climate drought, fire, coyote harassment, pests and diseases, etc. After ten years of hard work, they finally succeeded in... Xinghua Lane Farm established a stable ecological environment and built a dead farm with barren land into a contemporary Garden of Eden. The two also gave birth to the fruit of their love, and their dream lifestyle became a reality.

Xinghuaxiang Farm is just a drop in the ocean for the earth. However, if we can promote this concept of ecologically harmonious development to the whole world, the entire earth will become a beautiful big farm.

I secretly believe that providing another development plan for mankind is the original intention of this movie that has been honing its sword for ten years.