Welcome to our film project site. We hope you will find it engaging and interesting. Please visit the site regularly to follow our progress and show support for what we want to achieve.
The story of Folly Farmyard is a fascinating and important one – fascinating in its complexity and variety; important for the crucial messages it will deliver in times to come about our shared environment.
What better way to tell the story than to make a film about Folly Farmyard’s history, what is happening there now and plans for the future.
The film, for which Jon Farey and Jem McCluskey started producing material several years ago, is a ‘slow burner’. However, this story is following a long-term, deeply held belief in the importance of the land and how it needs to be handed over to the next generation, for ‘agricultural wellbeing’ and nature itself.
We will weave a story in a beautiful place set amongst the Blackdown Hills National Landscape about Jon and his remarkable family, filled with love, music, fun and commitment to the land around them and the interconnected communities of which they are an important part.
The elements of the film will include Folly Farmyard’s and Jon’s relationship to:
- regenerative farming
- habitat and nature restoration
- new woodland creation
- flower-rich grassland maintenance & creation
- pond establishment
- water and flood management
- pier support, community relationships and engagement
- family, music & faith
For a snapshot of what we’ve been doing, please visit our blog page: