Common Ground

Common Ground (2023) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM. It ties together three things Americans usually discuss separately: farm policy, politics and chronic illness. At its heart are regenerative farmers building a case, field by field, for the health of the soil under our feet.

Directors Rebecca Harrell Tickell and Josh Tickell travel across the continent showing how decades of chemical-heavy agriculture stripped the land of its fertility, and how growers are bringing it back without the pesticide treadmill. The mood is sober but far from hopeless: instead of alarm, it offers real people with workable fixes. Narration and voices come from Laura Dern, Jason Momoa, Woody Harrelson, Rosario Dawson, Donald Glover and Ian Somerhalder.

This is the follow-up to the widely seen Kiss the Ground (2020) by the same filmmakers, and it digs deeper than the first. Made for anyone curious about where food actually comes from and why dirt, of all things, circles back to human health. The tagline keeps it grounded: saving the planet, one acre at a time. Stream Common Ground (2023) online on iFILM.