The eagerly anticipated documentary film, Six Inches of Soil, is to be screened by ACE, the Slow Food group and Aylsham Picture House at Aylsham Town Hall in March.
The film tells the inspiring story of young British farmers standing up against the industrial food system and transforming the way they produce food – to heal the soil, our health and provide for local communities.
The screening will take place on Saturday 22 March (doors open 6.30pm for 7pm showing) and will include a discussion panel afterwards and a bar.
And Slow Food Aylsham will be providing the wine and nibbles.
The panel will include Eves Hill Veg Co, a not-for-profit community market garden based on land on the edge of Aylsham, and Charlie Ennals, of Blickling, Agricultural Relationships Manager for Wildfarmed, a regenerative food and farming business.
Since launching in January 2024, the film has been shown around 400 times across the UK in venues from cinemas and theatres to farms and village halls.
Felicity Beckett of Picturehouse says: “The Six Inches of Soil documentary has tapped into a rich seam of public consciousness around food. It beautifully illustrates the problem, then shows what can and is being achieved by ordinary people.
“Communities are flocking to screenings, in a way I’ve never seen before, for the clear, positive message around creating a new future for farming and our planet.”
Claire Mackenzie, Six Inches of Soil Producer adds: “Community screenings are a hugely important part of our impact campaign. It’s really important that people have discussions at a local level to find ways to move forward to create profitable food systems that benefit the community whilst looking after our soil and the environment in the best possible way.”
Eves Hill Veg Co
EHVC is a not-for-profit community market garden based on one acre of land on the edge of Aylsham, Norfolk.
Since 2016, they have grown produce to the highest ecological standards which they sell locally through a veg bag scheme as well as to restaurants and cafes.
EHVC’s aim is to support others to grow and eat food that is affordable, healthy and delicious.
They open up their site weekly to local people through horticulture volunteer, Level 1 gardening courses, one-day workshops and training programmes – all of which are free and run the only paid Market Garden apprenticeship in East Anglia.
EHVC has a strong emphasis on supporting those who get involved to feel part of a community, develop skills and move on to either work, volunteering or to develop and create their own gardens and allotments.
They have mentored other market gardens locally including Norwich FarmShare and Goodery Organic and have run an Introduction to Land Based Business course for DEFRA.
For more information contact info@eveshillvegco.com
Charlie Ennals (Blickling)
Charlie is Agricultural Relationships Manager for Wildfarmed, a regenerative food and farming business that has created a traceable field-to-plate network offering a route to market for crops grown in systems that prioritise soil health and biodiversity.
She supports the community of growers in the east of England producing grain in line with Wildfarmed’s regenerative standards.
With a background in Environmental Science and previous experience at Natural England and Norfolk FWAG, Charlie has devoted her career to enhancing the farmed environment and building resilience into farm businesses, including on her husband’s family farm in Blickling.
Fergus McGregor
Runs the family farm in Reepham which is both organic and conventional. Growing combinable crops, cows and sheep, the farm has won awards for its work with conservation, something that is at the heart of their farming practice.
Bee Springwood
Helped set up Norwich FarmShare, a not-for-profit co-operative Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) that produces local, seasonal, ecologically grown food with and for the local community and works co-operatively with local ecological small scale farmers and growers in Norwich. It is in it’s 6th year and part of a wider movement to enable people to have a better say how their food is produced.
Adam Curtis
Adam has worked in nature conservation for more than 30 years including with the National Trust, a major local landowner. He has cared for National Nature Reserves, veteran trees and sites designated as ancient woodlands.
He moved to Aylsham in 2022 and now works with the Tree Council, a small charity formed in 1973 “to bring everyone together with a shared mission to care for trees and our planet’s future”.
