The New Peasants | movie | 2025 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

What happens when the values of the culture you’ve always known no longer align with how you see the world? The New Pe | dG1fbFFiSFhHa2NHbVE

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00:00Over the years, Meg and I have leant further and further into this new story without really

00:17knowing where we were going, just knowing what we were wanting to leave behind. And

00:22that was industrial food, medicine and energy.

00:32Neo-peasantry describes how we live and our connection to our peasant ancestors.

00:41We haven't eaten supermarket food for 15 years. We've been car-free for about that same time.

00:49What is a way of living that actually reflects my own personal values?

00:56I get one chance at this life.

01:00Zef is my first son. He became known as that dirty hippie that eats roadkill.

01:08He started his high school years with that story and couldn't throw it off.

01:13Do I want to be just chasing the dollar and always feeling like I don't have enough time?

01:21Or do I want to be present to every single apple that I pick and every single cucumber that I slice?

01:28Imagine a life like that.

01:30The way we live might seem really radical and kind of crazy.

01:37But to us it's just been the sort of incremental changes.

01:40Like what part of our behaviour is reliant on that very toxic or polluting industry?

01:46I want to live an accountable life.

01:49Zef was caught and ended up in the local police station.

02:01It just became a nightmare.

02:06But I have so much joy and gratitude for the work that I do because of his story.

02:17When we started living like this we didn't know where we were heading.

02:21We knew that the dominant culture's values no longer made sense to us.

02:27But we didn't know that it would lead to such richness.