Project · Short film
Farmer Forward Farm Stories
2026, a film by Megan Matousek
About
Eight short documentaries about the families who grow our food. Behind every field is a family that gets up before dawn, reads the weather and the soil, and makes hundreds of quiet decisions that most of us will never see. They carry what earlier generations taught them and plant for people they’ll never meet. These films set out to honor that work and the love of the land that keeps it going, year after year. The films were made for Farmer Forward, a program that verifies the conservation practices farmers use in their fields and helps them share that work with the people who buy their crops. Few family farms ever get the chance to tell their own story. These films give each family that chance, in their own words, so the care they put into the land can be seen by the people it feeds.
