2019-06-18
1 小时 4 分钟My guest today, John Chester, has been a filmmaker and television director for the last 25 years, telling stories that reconnect us with our humanity and kind of help us see the same in others.
And during that same time, his wife Molly was busy changing lives as a private chef and a teacher in LA, with a really deep, committed focus on natural foods, biodiversity and sustainability.
But here's the interesting thing.
Years into their careers, they decided to do something pretty radical.
They came together and moved out of the city, bought a piece of land that had been deemed largely unfarmable, like it just couldn't sustain life, and transformed it over a period of years into something really profound.
This became apricotly in farms, which is not just a biodynamic, regenerative organic farm.
It is also a stunning example of what is possible when you hold onto a vision to rehabilitate a small slice of nature while also surrendering to how that adventure tells you it needs to unfold.
The way that it affected everyone involved has been profound.
The story of Molly and John's journey, actually, and the transformation in nature, the animals, the humans, the plants, the land, everything that's unfolded over this time is also now captured in a really moving, stunningly filmed new documentary called the biggest Little Farm, which we'll link to in the show.
Notes, of course.
Quick note also, we'd love to actually have been able to share a conversation with both Molly and John in today's episode.
In fact, they were both here, but unfortunately, literally hours before Molly lost her voice.
Zero voice, nothing the day of the taping.
So John is standing in for both of them as the storyteller in residence.
So excited to share their journey with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
So as we sit here, New York City, very different world in which you currently live in a farm about an hour outside of LA.
But that also is a profoundly different world you inhabited in a past life.
Yeah.
So.