Review of The Need to Grow

I really agree with the sentiment of this film that soil is really important. But after about 20 minutes it just seemed to repeat the same statements about soil and got really tedious. I leant how good biochar can be but I leant little else that is practical or useful to my life. If I didn't already appreciate how bad modern farming practices were then perhaps it would have been more useful. There are three main interlinking 'stories' but they are not told in a way that takes you on the journey that these people have gone through in a satisfying way. More interesting would have been to go through the journey from beginning to implementation for these stories and seeing how practical challenges were overcome. But there is limited detail on this and it is not in order. But worst is that there is no inspiring or positive outcome for these projects. The whole thing feels depressing. There is a teaser that things work out okay at the end but with no detail. That would have been an interesting story to follow. Ultimately if they cut this down to 30 minutes without the repetitive statements from experts it might have been okay. As it is, I am sorry to say really did not enjoy watching this.