Hearty congratulations to Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney for successfully raising the necessary funds for their forthcoming documentary Truck Farm! They used Kickstarter – a website focused on raising funds for creative ideas and ambitious endeavors – to raise the final $15,000 for the editing, composing, and animating.

Last spring, using green-roof technology, lightweight soil and heirloom seeds, Ian and Curt transformed an ’86 Dodge into a traveling 20-member CSA. The 40 minute Truck Farm documentary will investigate the growth of the urban farm movement in New York City. Curt and Ian describe the film on their Kickstarter page:

"The Truck Farm film will carry viewers from a self-sustaining Staten Island barge to a 6,000-square-foot market garden atop a Brooklyn roof to the elaborate Window Farms of two Manhattan artists. Along the way, we'll see how far today’s city-dwellers are willing to go to grow food on whatever land they’ve got. According to the National Garden Association, 7 million new gardens were planted in 2009, everywhere from White Houses to schoolhouses. Truck Farm is the story of how these gardens are breathing new life into old cities––and helping one old pickup find meaning in its last years on the road."

The film will surely be one of the most popular in the community garden film circuit. Don't miss it!