The Dairy Farmer, Sophie Gregory, Home Farm. This is the latest in a series of films I’ve been making about Farmers and the relationship they have with their animals. Focusing on Farmers who engage in the principles of regenerative farming. When I make these films I feel a tremendous responsibility to the subject, in this case, Sophie, a Dairy Farmer located in Devon. My hope is to represent what I really observe, and what I observe are relationships that prior to spending time on farms I didn’t know existed. With what seems to be an increasing onslaught against farmers, I wonder how many people with polarised opinions have actually spent time on farms vs how many articles/books they’ve read? How many know the difference between industrial farming and regenerative farming? How many understand the objectives of one form versus the other – Industrial farming’s sole consideration is profit, Regenerative farming takes planetary health into consideration aswell as profit. As Sophie says in the film; ‘healthy soil, healthy animal, healthy milk, healthy human’.

Without a healthy human IMO, there can be no healthy planet.

Director/Cinematographer/Editor/Sound: Chris Baker
Color: Nick Watson @ Escape Hatch Studios

Sophie Gregory