“Whether you march on Earth Day or simply enjoy the view from the top of the ski slopes, the twelfth annual Colorado Environmental Film Festival welcomes you to Golden this weekend.

This year’s festival highlights 56 films from ten countries, including the world premiere of How We Grow, a feature-length documentary that follows millennial farmers in Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley.

Departing from the doom-and-gloom approach of many food films, co-directors and Coloradans Haley Thompson and Tomas Zuccareno’s documentary shows how they identified an environmental problem and just got to work fixing it.

‘The way we feed everyone now is so bad for the planet,’ Zuccareno says. ‘And what we love about our farmers is how they’re really caring for the soil. Not only does healthy soil give us tastier carrots and prettier tomatoes, but when soil is healthy, it sequesters carbon.’”

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