18/03/2010

My Dream Farm

MyDreamFarm

Following on from (or pre-dating rather) Mastercrafts, Monty Don helped some urban familes explore the idea of 'returning to the land' in rural britain. In an interview with the Telegraph he joins many of us who have been searching for examples of resiliance and rightly clams that the tide is now turning,

'Our confidence and trust have been absolutely shattered,’ he says. ‘We no longer believe in banks, we no longer believe in politicians, we hardly believe in doctors, we don’t believe in the weather, we don’t believe in the food we eat. People are looking for surety, they’re looking for things they can make and know are good, rather than things they can buy or that other people sold to them.’

This program new program carries with it much of the ethos of Mastercrafts and helps explore thing things we have lost in our lives, seeking to re-find an interconnect in our lives. The luxuries of technology are letting me go back and watch this program to see what gems there are to be drawn out from that experiment. If your interested check out My Dream Farm on chanel 4.

18 Mar 2010 09:52:34

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