A Passing Place - Fourth generation crofter, Donald MacDonald works his farms on an island in the Outer Hebrides - between Greenland and Scotland. There will not be a fifth generation. As seas rise, the land sinks and the young people leave, Baleshare, like many coastal communities, will not survive. Yet he chooses to value the richness of the everyday

Farmsteaders - Clear-eyed and intimate, Farmsteaders is as much a study of place as it is a study of persistence. Having abandoned a career as a food processing engineer at General Mills, Nick returns home, the prodigal son, and he, his wife Celeste and their young family resurrect his late grandfather’s dairy farm. Heroic, benign and accessible, Nick and Celeste’s meditations on life, legacy, and resistance offer an unexpected voice from a forsaken people – those who grow the food that sustains us.

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