This is a nice piece, albeit something that does suffer a bit from clearly being a propoganda/promo piece for the filmmakers. Looking at a couple of years running a farm (by an ex-Animal-Planet cameraman and his food-blogger wife), as they commit to running a biodiverse operation in an attempt to renew the soil and stay running. And the footage of the animals, in particular, is great (as it should be, since, well, filming animals was the guy's job) - and it's good to get an understanding of the complexities of working in a biodiverse way, as getting the interconnections to work takes some doing - although we never really get a firm sense on where all the bonus helpers our two leads seem to have really come from (there's supposedly only two employees, but they seem to have a lot more people coming around - are they using volunteers, casual labour, how is this actually working?).
And due to the fact they haven't actually gone bankrupt at this point, our lead duo do tend to pat themselves on the back a bit for their various wise decisions - many of which do kinda look a bit like luck rather than good judgement. And some of the narration waxes a bit too philosophical, and I'm not a huge fan of the animated-exposition early on, which can come across as cutesy and a bit smug. But for all of those complaints, this pans out pretty reasonably, albeit inevitably self-promotingly.
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