"Dirt" A Documentary About Saving Our Soil | Mid-America Emmy® Winner & Public Media Award Finalist

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Published 2022-09-01
Break through the surface to explore the living, breathing ecosystem beneath our feet. “Dirt” — a new documentary about saving our soil — delves into how Arkansas farmers, ranchers and more are improving their operations by helping the environment.

"Dirt” is a 2023 nominee of the 47th Annual Mid-America Emmy® Award in the category of Documentary – Cultural and and a winner in the category of Audio Post-Production.

“Dirt” is a finalist for the 55th Public Media Award in the Content category for Topical Feature. The Public Media Awards honor NETA members’ finest work in content, community engagement, marketing/communications and education.

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All Comments (21)
  • @jenniferlough4610
    Excellent documentary ~ I'm using this in my high school Sustainable Ag classroom. Thank you Arkansas PBS!
  • @brianjones6500
    I have a deer trail on my property and I'm amazed at what their hooves plant. They bring in moss, wispy grasses and other things I haven't identified yet. It seems the deer are better at gardening than I am.
  • @cliffpalermo
    YouTube should be suggesting this more. I was expecting a higher view count. What a great documentary! If you enjoyed look at KNF korean natural farming.
  • @marjoriejohnson6535
    My mother worked for soil conservation services for more than 20 years. My father had a small dairy farm ( that made money) ..mom was not impressed at times with the college trained people in charge. She thought that sometimes they had no commonsense and had solutions that cost money when it could be solved with some of the very old fashioned practices that were either forgotten or more labor..I watched my father move to a new farm and fix everything from water retention to soil building. We never had a tractor..it was done with horses. Horses could go onto fields to do work without causing the problems such as rutting up fields..etc.
  • @northeastworms
    Beautiful and thank you for this. We need more farmers like this. Only one consideration; you can add more fungi and bacteria to the soil. Worm casting and worm casting tea is the "cure" for soils that are poor in microlife.
  • @kcdonegan
    Great knowledge to have. Gotta take care of the land so it can continue takin care of us. Everyone needs to see this video. Awesome work.
  • @QuiChiYang2
    At 19:00 time-line the mushrooms come out of cow manure is often times psilocybin cubensis. A psychoactive drug used for PTSD, drug rehabilitation, etc.
  • @B01
    Don't need to convince us conventional Ag is horrible, we have the last 50 years as evidence of how horrendous it is. No system that can be considered a properly functioning system needs MORE inputs every single year. That is what's known as a failing system, and that's the current model. A failing system. Not a failure, because people were fed...but if we want to keep doing so, regenerative agriculture is a must.
  • @MightyPenn
    It's called Intelligent Design, y'all!! 😃
  • @Clamjacob
    Do they water during the day? That's not ideal! Maybe it's just for the documentary... Though watering at night is a pretty good soil saving habit that could prevent fertile crescent collapse 2.0 ... Cuz watering during day leads to evaporation which leads to the minerals in the water crusting up and eventually possibly during the ground into saltpans!! But I'm just nitpicking I'm sorry!!!! It's such a good documentary! I will refer it to everyone I know!
  • @C.Hawkshaw
    28:35 Herbicide?! Bayer? Y’all are talking about Roundup. WTF?
  • @commonsenseapproach101
    We do No till and cover crops and in NO way should you be using chemicals(they call it burning) to kill off the CC. Just use the proper cover crops for that specific cash crop coming(normally just beats and turnips/radishes). We are Not healing the soil when you have to use MORE chemicals than before. Those chemicals are literally killing the microbes and good organic matter. Very poor farm practices on that farmer.
  • @MysterSer333
    This is annoying.. there was already a great documentary called “Dirt!”…