Bloomingfoods Co-Op Market & Buskirk-Chumley Theater Presents:

THE NEED TO GROW – Celebrating EARTHFEST 2025

FREE TO THE PUBLIC. NO TICKET REQUIRED

A remote Q&A with documentary director after the film.

The Need To GROW:

With an estimated 60 years of farmable soil left on Earth, The Need To GROW offers an intimate look into the hearts of activists and innovators in the food movement - an 8 year old girl challenges the ethics of a beloved organization - a renegade farmer struggles to keep his land as he revolutionizes resource efficient agriculture - and an accomplished visionary inventor faces catastrophe in the midst of developing a game-changing soil regeneration technology.

The Need To GROW delivers alarming evidence on the importance of healthy soil - revealing not only the potential of localized food production working with nature, but our opportunity as individuals to help regenerate our planet’s dying soils and participate in the restoration of the Earth.

● Winner - Best Documentary - Sonoma International Film Festival

● Winner - Best Documentary - Beaufort International Film Festival

● Winner - Best Documentary, Audience Award - Edmonton International Film Festival

● Winner - Best Environmental Film - Sedona International Film Festival

● Winner - Award of Excellence - Impact Docs Awards

● Winner - Environmental Voice Arts Award, Rosario Dawson - Society of Voice Arts and Sciences

● Winner - Roy W. Dean Grant - From The Heart Productions

EarthFest is an annual Bloomingfoods’ celebration beginning on Earth Day and runs through Fair Trade Day to encourage everyone to make every day earth day and to create a higher demand for sustainable and ethically sourced goods. To learn more about the EarthFest events, promotions, and giveaways, please visit www.bloomingfoods.coop/2025earthfest.

THIS IS A FREE EVENT. NO TICKET NEEDED.