Recruitment, programme records, participant stories, and reviews from the Agroecology Internship.
This episode was recorded in the Alxa desert of Inner Mongolia by Qihua, Foodthink’s lead on climate change and ecological smallholder research, along with two guests. In late August 2022, the three of them sat under a large tree in an oasis within the Tengger Desert; you may hear the…
During a gap year, former Shanghai new-media practitioner Tian She Lao Weng joined Foodthink’s Lianhe Project at Zhiliangtian Farm on the edge of the Tengger Desert in Alxa, Inner Mongolia, seeing how farming, the rain and melon sales connect food and ecology to personal life.
In 2021, the first season of the reality documentary *Clarkson’s Farm*, featuring a grumpy old man trying his hand at farming, earned a high score of 9.6 on Douban. This February 10th, the second season is set to premiere. Why has Jeremy Clarkson—the wealthy old man and former host of…
At the end of 2021, while still working for an internet company in Shanghai, I came across a recruitment notice for Foodthink’s ‘Ecological Agriculture Intern Programme’, and something about it really resonated with me. Once my application was accepted, I chose ‘Meeting Farm’ in Meishan, Sichuan, as my destination. As…
For most people, 2022 felt like a rollercoaster, full of highs and lows. The team at Foodthink felt much the same; our ambitions, which in 2021 had been to venture far and wide, shifted towards a state of constant apprehension and anxiety.
An independent filmmaker in Kunming, Chen Chong, spent less than a month at Liangliang Farm in Sichuan, where Tang Liang’s reunited family, shared meals and daily weeding offered a lasting sense of strength.
