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Often referred to as the "gypsies of India," the Banjara people of Karnataka abandoned a nomadic lifestyle and founded settlements about sixty years ago. Sitaramtanda is one of these.

The people of Sitramtanda own about 10,000 acres of farmland which they farm traditionally, using locally-made tools of wood and metal. They grow sunflowers, teak, mangos, rice, cotton, palm, and peanuts, among other things. Landowner Naryan Naik showed us around. 

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Hanuman Thappa is a fisherman on the Hampi River in India. Fishing isn't a commercial enterprise in this slow-moving small town, and it's done the same way today that men have been fishing for years.

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We visited Huaca Huasi with Adrian from Terra Quechua Tours out of Cusco, Peru (terraquechuaperu.com/). At nearly 4,000 meters in the Andes, the community subsists primarily on the only crop that will grow: potatoes. About 80 percent of men from Huaca Huasi work in the fields, and labor rules are strictly determined by gender.

Let it be known—a potato grown without the aid of chemicals, pesticides, or even modern tools is just about the best potato we’ve ever tried. And just about the most difficult farming we’ve ever seen.

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German Soto talks about cultivation in the indigenous Moseten community, located downriver from Rurrenabaque in the Bolivian Amazon. The community's methods of farming are about as organic and local as it gets, but they farm this way because it's tradition—not a revolution.

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Sachamama Nature Reserve, Salento Colombia

Not all coffee farms are created equal. Pedro Lorenzo Burgos Grajales and his wife Maryori grow coffee in a different way, and for reasons other than distribution. They live with their children and nephew in a Swiss Family Robinson-esque home in the hills outside of Salento, Colombia, and live lives dedicated to the pursuit of whole, slow foods, radical permaculture, and land reclamation. Their coffee is the best we’ve ever tasted, hands down.

This is their story.

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Stepping a bit off the organic trail and into the depths of the jungle (don't worry... everything you wanted to know about the culture of Amazonas fishing coming soon!), we put this promotional video together for Amazon Gero Tours, based out of Manaus, Brazil. 

Please note that we're not selling out: the warm light we paint them in is not solely for their promotional purposes. We highly recommend their tour, though our next trip to the jungle will hopefully be less guided. Regardless, these guys are great. No taking sloths out of trees for photo ops here! 

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Scratching the surface of the organic revolution in Colombia!

Farmer's Market, Villa de Leyva

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Best Churrascaria in Bogota

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Who We Are

Once upon a time Ryan Cheresnick, a film student and aspiring musician, met Lisette Johnson, a journalism student and aspiring poet. It didn't take many conversations for them both to realize that they were a dynamite team, and it wasn't half a year before they realized they were in it for the long haul.

Five years, three cross-country road trips, and a thousand adventures later, Cheresnick and Johnson became Cheresson in a colorful ceremony in the Catskills. And what's the best way to test drive a new marriage? Obviously. Begin creative collaboration.

We believe that the world is full of untold stories, and that everyone should have a shot at telling his or hers. While we'd never turn down a chance to broadcast said stories in notable venues, we care more about making connections with subjects than using them for personal gain. That's to say: our collaboration, our ART, per-se, is as rooted in the joy of making as it is in the hope of commercial success.

We hope you find a nugget of golden truth in our work, or that in our work you find an optimism and honesty about humanity that takes root as a form of inspiration. Or, at the very least, that you enjoy it.

All comments and suggestions will be happily received at [email protected].

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