This documentary is about how successional agroforesters from Brazil to Australia have employed the most advanced form of agriculture available to us, growing food profitably through biodiversity instead of chemical fertilisers.

• How can we work as and with Nature instead of working against Nature?
• How can we earn an income and grow food whilst regenerating our degraded planetary home?
• How can we feel order, purpose and belonging in a time of climate catastrophe and chaos?

The Forest Explains something that indigenous wisdom and western physics can both confirm: that we belong within a much larger, much more intelligent system of Life, and if we humble ourselves to work within that larger system, we can create harmony, healing, and abundance, from our food system all the way to the planet.

This is not a film that proposes big ideas without grounding them in reality. We show firsthand how syntropy is changing peoples’ lives at a grassroots level: from landless mothers feeding their peasant families outside of Brasilia, to middle-class Australian couples pioneering regenerative farm businesses in Byron Bay.