Part Five - Ceres' Children

The six-part series is a collaboration of over two dozen Vermont filmmakers, led by award-winning filmmaker Nora Jacobson. Filmmakers, politicians, scholars, artists and citizens probe under Vermont's bucolic surface to reveal stories of class, race, labor, education, culture, the environment, and much more, woven together in a lively tapestry of gorgeous images, voices and people.

Freedom & Unity: The Vermont Movie Episode 5 | 79m 58s | CC

Take a deep look at some of Vermont's cherished traditions: participatory democracy and the conservation ethic. We capture 21st century debates over natural resources, how these concerns originate in the ethics of farmers who depend on the natural world for their survival. The disappearance of dairy farms raised a tough question: how big is too big? How can Vermont survive in a world economy?

Freedom & Unity: The Vermont Movie