An environmental love story on a road less travelled | dG1fUGVCM0NzZklGSzA
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00:00Is the camera still rolling?
00:02I assume it is.
00:03I forgot what our discussion was about.
00:05Oh, I was supposed to say who you are.
00:07Oh, right.
00:08Who are you?
00:09We both forgot.
00:10I haven't forgotten who I am.
00:12It is good stuff to see new poo.
00:14I love making the compost, making something new from something old.
00:17All in all, the garden plus the animals, we provide about 70% of our food needs.
00:22At the end of the day, you can walk in with an armload full of produce like this.
00:31Who's that?
00:32That's you that's about to give birth.
00:34Right.
00:35Your mum was quite touched that I named one of our sheep after her.
00:38Does that mean I can't shoot her?
00:40That would be ridiculous.
00:43I first met John in the early 90s.
00:45I came here and we went out to the vegetable garden.
00:48I just remember picking up the soil and thinking,
00:51hmm, this bloke knows what he's doing.
00:54And I thought, yeah, I could live with him.
00:58Are we going to answer that?
01:00Might as well.
01:01OK.
01:03Hello?
01:05When you see those baskets of mixed produce, it's a big thing.
01:08Hannah, lemons won this year.
01:10They've cut one open, yeah.
01:11To see how hydrated they are.
01:13Yeah.
01:14So I've been watering and watering and watering the tree to make sure.
01:17Yeah, and I've been pissing on them a lot too.
01:19I've just been asked to help set up a kitchen garden at the local primary school.
01:25I just feel so full of all this knowledge and enthusiasm about how to grow food.
01:32My usual approach is not to worry before you know for sure whether there's an issue or not.
01:38But this really is something.
01:40I'm just going to fight it.
01:43I'm going to fight this if that's what it is.
01:48There's one very, very tiny gift with this.
01:51And that is that you face your own mortality.
01:54And so there's this heightened sensitivity to life.
01:59Something will change your world.
02:00Something changes everybody's world.
02:07Can you make me look like this guy here?
02:09Take 18 years off.
02:12That's actually him.
02:14We were paddling through the night gliding with this sphere and stars just like floating through the universe.
02:22So are you a farmer then?
02:24No, I'm not a farmer.
02:25I'm a simple man. That's what I am.
02:27Yeah.