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FOREVER FARMS

A REGENERATIVE JOURNEY FROM SURVIVAL TO ABUNDANCE

In Production (2025)

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The Beginning of Forever Farms
‘A 1000 Year Vision’ is the pilot film of the documentary series Forever Farms. It follows one family on a journey across Europe that opens up a larger question about land, food and the future of farming.

The 1000 Year Vision
At the centre is Peter Michel Heilmann, who developed the 1000 Year Vision: an approach to land stewardship that combines long-term thinking with a legal trust model to protect farmland from speculation and secure it for regenerative use. Together with his wife Mieke and their son Ravi, he leaves their life in the Netherlands behind and travels by campervan, following what they call the signs: encounters with farmers and food pioneers searching for ways to make regeneration viable for the long term.

Regeneration Through Community: England
In England, they meet Luke Hasell of The Story Farms. Luke’s work connects soil, food and community through initiatives such as The Community Farm, Valley Fest and the veg-led Root restaurants. Yet despite ecological success and strong local support, he faces ongoing financial pressure, revealing how regenerative impact does not automatically lead to economic resilience.

Regeneration Through Farming and Food: Ireland
In Ireland, they visit Moy Hill Farm, where Fergal Smith focuses on educating the next generation of regenerative farmers through the Moy Hill Farm School. They also meet The Happy Pear, founded by twins Stephen and David Flynn, who have led a global food revolution for over twenty years, inspiring millions to eat in ways that benefit people and planet. While Luke works from the land outward and Fergal from education forward, The Happy Pear operates at the level of consumer culture. Yet all face the same challenge of securing land and mission for the long term.

A Vision in Motion
Through these encounters, the film reveals that regeneration is not only about farming practices, but about ownership, finance, education and culture. It explores how new structures can enable stewards to live healthier, less stressful and financially sustainable lives while passing the land on in better condition to future generations. The film offers no final answer, but a living vision in motion. It marks the beginning of a broader journey into how land can be secured and regenerated for centuries to come.

Trailer release: March 2026
Film release: April-June 2026

“We are part of Nature, not apart from Nature.”

Heilmann Family

Support us
DocuFilm is open to receive financial support from mission-aligned, impact-driven benefactors in order to make the Forever Farms Docuseries possible. 

In order to be able to receive philanthropic and/or catalytic capital funding from benefactors, DocuFilm strategically collaborates with the SBF Noord-Brabant Foundation. This is a Dutch non-profit stichting (foundation) supporting independent filmmakers in helping finance their documentary and film productions.

For each donation, the foundation retains a small processing and admin fee of 2 percent. The remainder, 98 percent, will be dedicated to fully cover DocuFilm’s Forever Farms production costs.

Distribution
Each Episode of the Forever Farms Docuseries will be freely accessible on YouTube. Furthermore, DocuFilm will collaborate with Forever Farms Ambassadors as well as local film houses, impact hubs, regenerative conferences and festivals, etc., who are welcome to share or screen the Docuseries without any restrictions. Our goal is to spread the word far and wide in order to raise awareness among people of all ages world-wide.

Contact
If you wish to financially support the Forever Farms Docuseries please feel free to contact us. We will be happy to send you our funding proposal.

E: contact@docufilm.nl
M: +31 644 57 49 21 (Monique Fuchs – Producer)
M: +31 642 30 64 48 (Wouter de Kuijper – Camera)

Thank you for your support on behalf of the DocuFilm Team:
Wouter de Kuijper, Monique Fuchs & Robbert Clignett

Het DocuFilm-team: Wouter, Monique en Robbert, mede-oprichters en documentairemakers

INSPIRING & MOTIVATING!

With this series, we follow initiatives that organize and steward farmland differently, with one clear aim: to secure the land for generations and to relieve farmers from constant financial pressure. Initiatives that work toward living soils, honest food, and new ways of farming. For anyone who wants to see what this looks like in practice — and what becomes possible when land is seen not as property, but as a shared responsibility.

“We tell stories to raise awareness and foster connection with people, animals, and nature.”

“Nurturing biodiversity is the key to restoring our livable ecosystems.”

HEALTHY FOOD COMES FROM HEALTHY SOIL!