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Jared Flesher's film 'The Farmer and the Horse' is a joy, an absolutely fascinating immersion into the world of three people who have fallen in love with working with horses. In a world where the production of food is hugely dependent on the availability of cheap liquid fuels and where, in the UK, the average age of farmers is 58, this film follows 3 young people trying to get into agriculture in New Jersey in the US, each of whom has a passion for working with horses.Some have arrived at the idea from working on traditional farms, and others from a commitment to farming as sustainably as possible, but all share a sense that the farming of the future will be smaller scale, more closely linked to their community, and will involve, in part at least, working horses. One of them, when asked why he likes working with horses replies because it just feels right, it just feels good - when everything's clicking together. Until the 1930s, the horse was an essential part of any farming operation

Jared Flesher's film 'The Farmer and the Horse' is a joy, an absolutely fascinating immersion into the world of three people who have fallen in love with working with horses. In a world where the production of food is hugely dependent on the availability of cheap liquid fuels and where, in the UK, the average age of farmers is 58, this film follows 3 young people trying to get into agriculture in New Jersey in the US, each of whom has a passion for working with horses.Some have arrived at the idea from working on traditional farms, and others from a commitment to farming as sustainably as possible, but all share a sense that the farming of the future will be smaller scale, more closely linked to their community, and will involve, in part at least, working horses. One of them, when asked why he likes working with horses replies because it just feels right, it just feels good - when everything's clicking together. Until the 1930s, the horse was an essential part of any farming operation. Then as tractors arrived, they vanished within a very short time period. The knowledge, the infrastructure, the skills that made horsepower possible largely disappeared, surviving, in the US, only with the Amish, a handful of enthusiasts, and historic 'museum' farms run as tourist attractions. The film follows three quite different young people, all of whom have come into contact with working horses and feel that learning to work with them is an important thing to do. It visits them over the space of the year as they try to work out, through hard work, early mornings and frustrating relationships with farm-owners, whether this is what they really want to do.It is often said that in Cuba, during the Special Period, the country went from needing 1% of its population working in farming to 20%. If the same thing is applied to the UK in the event of an energy famine, we would need around 8 million new farmers. There are already a number of young farmers inspired by the possibilities of mo

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