The Hand that Feeds

Filmmaker Devon Cooke sets out to find out why his dream of becoming a farmer seems so impossible. He lives and works on farms across Canada, discovering how farmers survive and healing his broken heart. He rediscovers a rural way of life that is defies his expectations of a nine-to-five in the city. He is forced to rethink the idea that being wealthy means earning a lot of money. Farmers love their way of life. But does that make it okay that most farmers work off-farm jobs to afford to stay on the land? Can our farmers afford to feed us? That way of life is threatened by the enormous cost of farmland — far more than farmers can earn. But the successful farmers make farming their life’s work and focus less on the finances.