Sovereign Soil

Built on a layer of frozen earth, Dawson City, Yukon, Canada has subarctic winters where temperatures routinely drop below −40°C. Meet the four season food producers who engage in small-scale agriculture, and those who support their back-to-the-land movement. These resilient unassuming farmers have carved out small patches of fertile soil, in an otherwise unforgiving expanse of isolated wilderness, to make a living and a life.

• David CurtisWriter
• David CurtisDirector

• Jackie OlsonSelf
• John LenartSelf
• Otto MuelbachSelf
• Gerry CoutureSelf
• Jan CoutureSelf
• Karen DigbySelf
• Grant DowdellSelf
• Joshua MosesSelf
• Kim MeltonSelf
• Sylvia FrischSelf
• Berwyn LarsonSelf