LFS presents: Kiss The Ground and Common Ground
May 13 @ 5:00pm
5:00pm – Burgers & Brats
Kiss The Ground – 6:00 PM
Sixty years. That’s about how long we have until the world’s remaining topsoil is gone. “What we’re looking at
is man-made desertification,” said Director Josh Tickell in his recent keynote speech. However, there is hope.
Kiss the Ground, the documentary directed and produced by Josh and Rebecca Tickell, with Julian Lennon and
Ian Somerhalder as Executive Producers, explores how this crisis can be reversed. When we regenerate the
world’s soils, we can stabilize the Earth’s climate, restore local ecosystems, and create abundant food supplies.
Featuring David Arquette, Gisele Bündchen, Rosario Dawson, Jason Mraz, and Ian Somerhalder, this film is a
tour de force of climate activism.
Trailer for Kiss the Ground: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQaZQ-jit6o
Common Ground – 7:45 PM
Common Ground is the sweeping and uplifting story of the pioneers of the “Regenerative Movement.” Farmers
in the movement are forgoing the toxic seeds and sprays pushed by Big Agriculture in order to produce
tremendous quantities of nutritionally dense food while bringing our entire ecosystem back to life. Common
Ground is the highly anticipated sequel to Kiss the Ground, which touched over one billion people globally and
inspired the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to put $20 billion toward soil health. By fusing
journalistic expose’ with deeply personal stories from those in the front lines of the sustainable food movement,
the film unveils a dark web of money, power, and politics behind our broken food system. The film exposes a
hopeful and uplifting movement of white, black, and indigenous farmers who are using alternative
“regenerative” models of agriculture to balance the climate, save our health, and stabilize America’s economy –
before it’s too late.
Trailer for Common Ground: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-M4Hq0MKFA
A community talk back will be held after the screenings if time permits.
