First off, he's in a diesel run tractor.

I till the earth.

So we can see the Collect Pond, and Lispenard Marshes back behind.

You go plough those two plots by the Red Gully.

Farmers cultivate the soil.

African agriculture today is among, or is, the most under capitalized in the world.

Well, uh, no plowing.

Mr. Koji Honda?

Oh, I'll work, maybe on a farm.

I see.

The key point is no plowing.

He kept that way for more than twenty years.

After John Smith traveled back to England

Koji's?

Farmers turn up the soil with plows.

What's new is just the degree of it.

And the connotation of peasantry, real people, salt of the Earth, has persisted around Saxon words.

Anglo Saxon words seemed so plain

The farmer plowed his field all day.

Those hick cops will never catch this baby.

Meet Koji's girlfriend.

Oh, I see.

Nell is interested in agricultural processes, and her work is based in these practices.

Ways of controlling, preventing soil erosion.

More than 40 of Earth's land has been cleared for agriculture.

So there was always going to be a tension within that.

I'm worried he might shake me off.

And not only that, we've used our imagination to thoroughly trash this globe.

That farmer cultivated a 200 acre plantation.

Local River is able to provide you food directly in your living room.

This is the first time I've ever plowed this land.

This is Nell Remmel.

No plowing?

We don't plow the soil surface.

Just following. That sort of method.

And then you go down a little bit further and you start to see worms.

Right?

We go from a couple of million people to the seven billion people we are today.

The dunes here move southward at a pace of around 600 meters a year.

And you know, and you don't survive.

You can see the rows in the bottom, the way you can see the rows in a field that has just been plowed to plant corn.

I found this dad's Army group of volunteers just outside Fukushima city.

I found this 'Dad's Army' group of volunteers just outside Fukushima City.

200 years ago, there were 6 feet of topsoil on the American prairies.

We stopped irrigating our soil, as much as we could.