A new documentary highlights the many difficulties facing an emerging generation of young farmers in Puerto Rico.
Stephanie, Ian and Alfredo are three young farmers who want to grow healthy produce for an island that imports most of its food, including fruits and vegetables. The farms they rent have been abandoned for decades. Their plans to rebuild these lands from the ground up are made that much more difficult by the devastation caused by Hurricanes Irma and María. Pagán Tetelbaum shows the protagonist’s grit as they attempt to carve out a living without land ownership or capital.
After the film showing there will be a roundtable with:
Director: JuanMa Pagán Teitelbaum
Producer and Writer: Mariolga Reyes Cruz
And three faculty from Illinois and CLACS affiliates: Jose Atiles (Sociology), Carmen Ugarte (Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences) and Nikolai Alvarado (Geography & Geographic Information Science)
