Robert Overmars – The Hands that Feed Us

Newsletter #11: How do I distill eight months of farming into 90 minutes?

March 26, 2021

Editing a documentary: Way less glamourous than farming! Up next: On the road again (for a few days) I’m a Human Book — Read…

Newsletter #10: I’m done filming (for now)

January 24, 2021

I’m done filming! (for now) So … I’ve decided I want to get a cow Up next: Editing the film on Salt Spring Island…

Newsletter #9: Crossing Canada to visit Overview Farms

January 24, 2021

Robert Overmars: the most welcoming dairy farmer in Nova Scotia Getting paid once a year: Welcome to raising cattle Driving across Canada — with…

Newsletter #8: How many farms does it take to feed 14,000 people? Just one.

October 3, 2020

Prairie harvest is a race against winter What does it take to get a prairie farm started? How feudal are our farmers? Combine harvesters…

How feudal are our farmers?

October 1, 2020

There’s a question that haunts me when I’m lying in bed pondering what The Hands that Feed Us is really about: Are we at…

Newsletter #7: A leap into the unknown

August 2, 2020

Heading east into the unknown Klippers’ second job is running Vancouver’s best new restaurant Food Security is not a subset of Poverty Eating peaches,…

Why Food Insecurity isn’t a Subset of Poverty

July 30, 2020

Recently, I came across this article worrying about how people will afford to eat once CERB, the government’s COVID-19 support program, dries up. The…