Join us to watch
Kiss the Ground, a 2020 American documentary film narrated by and featuring Woody Harrelson, exploring the role that regenerative farming could have as a solution to our climate crisis. Using compelling graphics and visuals, along with striking NASA and NOAA footage, the film artfully illustrates how, by drawing down atmospheric carbon, soil just might be the missing piece of the climate puzzle.
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion, with local experts weighing in on the next steps. Our panelists for the evening:
Dr. Asim Biswas: Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator at the School of Environmental Sciences and the OAC Research Chair in Soils and Precision Agriculture. He is also a member of the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars. Dr. Biswas specializes in data-driven sustainable soil management. He focuses on enhancing the productivity and resilience of land-based agri-food production systems in an environmentally sustainable manner. Dr. Biswas’s work advances Canada’s efforts toward sustainable and efficient agri-food production systems.
Anibal Castillo: Ph.D. candidate, OGS, QEII-GSST, and Arthur D. Latornell scholar in terrestrial biodiversity at the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Guelph. Anibal's research focuses on soil and leaf-litter invertebrates in ecological gradients in Canada and Costa Rica.
Bryan Gilvesy: Bryan is C.E.O. of
ALUS Canada, a national community-led, farmer delivered program that engages farmers to provide solutions to Canada’s most pressing environmental problems. He is also owner of the
Y U Ranch, a sustainable ranching operation in Norfolk County, Ontario.