‘Common Ground’ shows power of film to drive change, for environment’s sake

John Boyd Jr., president of the National Black Farmers Association and Josh Tickell, co-director of the film “Common Ground,” at the Washington, D.C. premiere on Nov. 13. (Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Common Ground)

Soil. It’s where our food comes from and the foundation of all life on land.

The way human beings have traditionally farmed in the modern era devastates the soil. It impacts the quality of the food people and farmed animals eat and thus our collective health. It’s not sustainable, vastly reducing the amount of farmable land available to us and our ability to feed the planet.