Personal stories and production narratives of smallholders, individual farmers, and family farms.
Yu Jiangang resigned in Beijing, returned to the village to raise silkworms and make silk comforters. Over twelve years, he watched two generations of young returnees drift further apart between ecological ideals and commercialisation, and ultimately concluded that true labour on the land is itself home.
A filmmaker who films in the southwest countryside yet always feels far from the land, she spent under a month at Tang Liang’s ecological farm in Niujiao Village, Jintang County, weeding and calling it a day with the eleven-person family. Back home, a whiff of ginger leaves – instantly familiar.
