Sandhill Farm, home to friends of Dancing Rabbit, is a small neighboring intentional community here in northeastern Missouri.
Sandhill has been practicing organic agriculture and gardening since 1974 on 135 acres, and the community provides most of its own food, including vegetables, fruits, herbs, sorghum syrup, honey, chickens, and turkeys. This video gives us a glimpse into how members of the community actually grow their own food, and how this lifestyle is central to community life at Sandhill Farm.
Hopefully this is the first of future DRTV: Neighbors videos!
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I really enjoy DRTV, as it provides a clear insight into the ‘ways’ of community life; and this doesn’t exist in many places on the web. Rather than use fossil fuels to go visit all these amazing communities, I see the web and video as a way to share these insights with the world using fewer fossil fuels. I hope many, many people watch everything you post on here!
If you’re interested in compassionate critique…as a video person myself, I would recommend using a tripod next time, at least for the sit-down interviews. But otherwise you told a very nice story here that was engaging despite it’s nice, slow steady pace and use of very few b-roll shots.
Thanks for sharing this!
-Mandy
Hiya Mandy: Thanks for your comment. That’s exactly the idea…
As far as this video, I actually shot this footage for the primary purpose of sending to the Food Network when they were interested in possibly doing a show about
Sandhill, but I realized I would have enough to turn into at least something decent for the web, too… (I would have loved more b-roll, especially, yea!)