Novato Green Film Series: The Need to GROW

Join the City of Novato Sustainability Program for a free screening of The Need to GROW, a documentary that explores both the opportunities, and the struggles, of challenging the status quo with real world solutions.

With an estimated 60 years of farmable soil left on Earth, The Need To GROW offers an intimate look into the hearts and minds of activists and innovators in the food movement - an 8-year old girl challenges the ethics of a beloved organization - a renegade farmer struggles to keep his land as he revolutionizes resource efficient agriculture - and an accomplished visionary inventor faces catastrophe in the midst of developing a game-changing soil regeneration technology.

"The Need to GROW" delivers alarming evidence on the importance of healthy soil — revealing not only the potential of localized food production working with nature, but our opportunity as individuals to help regenerate our planet’s dying soils and participate in the restoration of the Earth. Narrated by Rosario Dawson.

Doors open at 6:00 and the screening will start at 6:30pm. A panel discussion featuring local soil and regenerative farming experts will follow the screening. The event is free to attend, but pre-registration is recommended.

The screening is being presented in partnership with Sustainable Novato and Indian Valley Organic Farm & Garden.