Coffee growers in Costa Rica’s Guanacaste region face shrinking harvests as rising temperatures damage their crops and global coffee prices continue to decline, making it hard to break even. So they’ve adapted by branching out into a new business – growing oranges.
Today farmers face the largest challenge of this generation – creating sustainable food systems and solving climate change. And they only have 30 harvests until 2050 to do it.
Photographer Eva Verbeeck and filmmaker Spencer MacDonald spent three weeks documenting the lives of young farmers throughout the Pacific Northwest. In this short film, hear why the farmers were drawn to the laborious but often rewarding occupation.
