Inhabit

Urban Farm DB summary

A media review covers the documentary Inhabit (2015, 92 min), directed by Costa Boutsikaris and produced by Emmett Brennan. It opens with a quote by permaculture co-originator Bill Mollison — "All we need to live a good life surrounds us: sun, wind, people, buildings, stones, sea, birds, and plants" — and explains permaculture as combining "permanent" and "agriculture" to adapt ecosystem principles to agriculture and living in harmony with nature. Citing figures that the US applies 900 million tons of pesticides annually and loses about 3 tons of topsoil per acre per year, the film introduces people who apply permaculture principles to farms, orchards, gardens, landscape and playground design, including Ben Falk (founder of the Whole System Design Permaculture Research Farm, Vermont), Eric Toensmeier and Lisa Depiano (Massachusetts), Lisa Fernandes (Maine), Steve Whitman (New Hampshire), and Dwaine Lee, an urban designer in New York involved with the Five Boroughs Green Roof on Randall's Island.