Truck Farm (2011)

Truck Farm: Directed by Ian Cheney. ‘Truck Farm’ is a whimsical, musically-narrated, documentary film about urban agriculture. Filmmaker Ian Cheney (KING CORN, THE GREENING OF SOUTHIE, THE CITY DARK) planted a 1/1000th-acre farm in the back of his 1986 Dodge pick-up-truck in the spring of 2009, after coming to New York City and lacking any other place of his own to grow food. Using green-roof materials, heirloom seeds, and a healthy dose of optimism and humor, Ian created a mobile community farm that yielded a wide range of vegetables and led to the discovery and exploration of other creative, quirky, community-based agriculture efforts all over the city.

“Iu0026#39;m always interested in such documentaries, people trying to grow stuff using different techniques, itu0026#39;s just interesting to watch. I can always learn something usefull by paying attention to what they show and explain but in this case I got really annoyed at one point. What the hell were they thinking by singing during the entire documentary? Itu0026#39;s cringing to listen to, Iu0026#39;m pretty sure the only people that liked to hear them singing were themselves. Not only is the singing really bad, the lyrics looked like theyu0026#39;ve been written by a six year old. So yes I can say it was really disappointing how this documentary was made. The material is really interesting, the execution of the documentary on the other hand was close to awful and thatu0026#39;s thanks to those two bad singers. A missed opportunity to make something great.”