Living with Nature —— See the biggest small farm

Going to see The Biggest Small Farm coincided with Aladdin's popularity, which made the screening hall of this minority film even more deserted. After watching the movie, the sparse crowd didn't leave immediately. Everyone applauded and felt deeply, because the film touched people's hearts.

The film tells the story of a couple who gave up city life to run a traditional farm. You may remember the scenes in the story book. Farmers own a field and all kinds of livestock. They grow fruits and vegetables from morning till night and feed them to chickens, ducks, pigs and cows. In developed countries, this kind of traditional agriculture is rare. Modern agricultural technologies such as monoculture, greenhouse cultivation and genetic improvement occupy the mainstream market. The green trees and fields in those story books have already turned into rows of silver greenhouses, and a large number of machines are running on the farm instead of crowing in the morning. It is in the face of such an efficient agricultural model that the couple want to take a step back and build a farm without pesticides, genetically modified plants and greenhouses.

Dreams vary from person to person, and some people's dreams are more like the end of a plan, which can be achieved through some efforts. Some people's dreams are more like wild dreams, and even the dreamer himself is not sure how to turn them into reality. For a photographer and a private chef, building a farm should be a crazy dream. And when people really turn this dream into reality, it becomes a story that people talk about. They have no funds, so they look for investors everywhere. They have no experience, so they turn to professionals to learn agricultural knowledge. They set up a farm, but there were many difficulties in the process. This film is not to make them into heroes, but to show their difficulties to the audience. The road to dreams is difficult and tortuous. Those who dare to think may not dare to do it, those who dare to do it may not be able to persist, and those who persist may not be lucky enough to find the right path.

Seven years later, the small farm finally showed what they expected. Rich soil nourishes leafy fruit trees. A clear lake is surrounded by fields of cattle and sheep, and fish and ducks are playing in the lake. White cranes, birds, rabbits and even raccoons, coyotes and nighthawks often visit this beautiful country. Dew every morning and sunset every night are looking at this vibrant farm, a world where nature and human beings live in harmony.

With the development of cities and the progress of science and technology, human beings are getting farther and farther away from nature. The development of science and technology makes us think that human beings dominate nature. Therefore, we choose to give up the unpredictability of nature and grow crops in the greenhouse. We choose to give up the most natural ecological environment and use pesticides to control the damage of insects and birds to crops. The couple in the movie, on the other hand, think more humbly that human beings belong to nature, and living in harmony with nature is the way to survive. They built not only a farm, but also a harmonious ecological circle. In the movie, the henhouse on the farm is often invaded by coyotes, and sometimes dozens of hens are lost in one night. They tried to reinforce the henhouse and build fences to stop coyotes, but it was useless. One evening, the farmer finally found the coyote. Coyotes wander outside the railings, coveting fat hens. A hyena couldn't resist the temptation of food and ran into a chicken farm alone and rushed to a group of hens who were at a loss. In this emergency, the farmer had no time to think about it, raised a loaded gun and shot the coyote. After that, the film didn't play up the victory atmosphere we imagined, and the farmer didn't rejoice because the coyote deserved it. He was disappointed and sad. In the movie, he said that at that moment he broke his oath not to interfere with nature.

Of course, this episode didn't end there. Farmers trained shepherds to protect chickens, and coyotes began to hunt prairie dogs that destroyed fruit trees. This farm has once again restored the healthy balance of ecology. Nature is sometimes like a hanging bell. Although it is constantly changing and swaying, it will eventually return to the midpoint of the balance. The entanglement between coyotes and chickens is just one of many stories about the balance of nature in the movie. The fruit trees that were not sprayed with pesticides were once destroyed by snail larvae, but with the help of ducks and eagles, they returned to a healthy state. The lamb that lost its mother once needed artificial feeding, but finally found a new mother and lived healthily. This sow named Emma is very ill, and no medicine can make her recover. When her children came back to her, Emma miraculously found the desire to live.

Nature is the origin of all life, and its strength and tenacity are incomparable to human beings. When human beings choose to reduce the interference with nature and obey the laws of nature, we choose to live in peace with the world. However, when we abuse natural resources excessively and destroy the natural balance excessively, disasters will follow. In this movie, the fire in California is also mentioned. The fire that destroyed the California forest almost spread to this small farm. Although global warming is only a distant term for many city people, it sweeps across the land where we live like a storm. Nature will be reborn from disasters with its strong resilience, but weak human beings may not be able to escape the disasters they have created.

The film won numerous awards, which is gratifying. This is a film full of love, full of love for nature, life and land. In love, we can understand that human beings belong to nature and learn to live in harmony with nature.