Symphony of the Soil (2012) | Full Cast

Deborah Koons Garcia

DIRECTOR

Ignacio Chapela

Self - Narrator, Interviewee, Microbial Ecologist and Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Dan Barber

Self - Chef, Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture and Blue Hill Restaurant

Vandana Shiva

Self - Physicist and Environmental Activist

Daniel Hillel

Self - Retired Professor of Soil Physics and Hydrology and Senior Research Scientist

Elaine Ingham

Self - President and Director of Research, Rodale, 2011; President and Director of Research, Soil Foodweb Inc 1996-2011

Michael Hansen

Self - Senior Scientist with Consumers Union, Publisher of Consumer Reports

Fred Kirschenmann

Self - Farmer, Distinguished Fellow at the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, President of the Board, Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture

Penny Livingston-Stark

Self - Co-Director of the Regenerative Design Institute and Co-Manager of the Commonweal Garden Organic Farm, Bolinas, CA

Kate Scow

Self - Professor of Soil Science and Microbial Ecology Department of Land, Air and Water Resources

Warren Weber

Self - Farmer, Star Route Farms, Bolinas, CA

John Williams

Self - Owner and Winemaker, Frog's Leap Winery, Rutherford, CA

Paul Hepperly

Self - Research Director 2002-2009, The Rodale Institute

Oliver Chadwick

Self - Professor of Geography

Charles Benbrook

Self - Chief Scientist of The Organic Center

Jaspal Singh Chattha

Self - Farmer, J & P Organic Farm, India

John Aeschliman

Self - Farmer, J.E.A. Farms Ltd

David R. Montgomery

Self - Professor of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington

John Reganold

Self - Regents Professor of Soil Science, Washington State University

Helmy Abouleish

Self - Managing Director of the Sekem Initiative

Ibrahim Abouleish

Self - Professor and Chairman of Sekem Group and Founder of Sekem

Jack Algiere

Self - Four Season Farm Manager, Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture

Viraj Beri

Self - Professor and Head of Department of Soils, Punjab Agricultural University

Bob Cannard

Self - Farmer, Cannard Farms, Sonoma, CA

Lynne Carpenter-Boggs

Self - BIOAg Specialist with the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, Washington State University

I.M. Chhibba

Self - Senior Soil Chemist, Department of Soils, Punjab Agricultural University

Philippe Coderey

Self - formerly the biodynamic manager for Bonny Doon Vineyard

Laurie Drinkwater

Self - Department of Horticulture, Cornell University

Umendra Dutt

Self - Executive Director, Kheti Virasat Mission

Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher

Self - ormer Director General of the Environmental Protection Authority of Ethiopia and PhD in Plant Ecology

Kimberly Epps

Self - Post-Doctorate in Soil Science, Stanford University

Anne Evans

Self - Farmer, Blaencamel Farm

Josh Frye

Self - Poultry Farmer

Jerry Glover

Self - Soil Scientist, The Land Institute

Keith Goulding

Self - Head of the Department of Soil Science at Rothamsted Research

Randall Grahm

Self - Owner, Bonny Doon Vineyard

Zakaria El Haddad

Self - Professor of Agriculture at Benha University and Director of the Egyptian Biodynamic Association

Hans R. Herren

Self - Co-Chair of the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development

Angela Hofmann

Self - Coordinator of Agriculture and Instructor for Agricultural Engineers, Sekem

Patrick Holden

Self - Farmer, Former Director of the Soil Association, United Kingdom 1995-2010

Rob Hopkins

Self - Founder of Transition Town Totnes and the Transition Network

David Huggins

Self - Soil Scientist, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Pullman, WA

Brad Jaeckel

Self - Manager of Washington State University Organic Farm

Vijay Jardhari

Self - Seed Saver, Farmer, Activist

Jennifer Johnson

Self - Graduate Student in Biology, Stanford University

Elizabeth Kaiser

Self - Farmer, Singing Frogs Farm, Sebastopol, CA

Paul Kaiser

Self - Farmer, Singing Frogs Farm, Sebastopol, CA

Parminder Kaur

Self - Natural Farmer, Kothy Gradhirin Wala, Punjab, India

Surinder Kaur

Self - Natural Farmer, Kheti Virasat Mission, Punjab, India

Jerry Konanui

Self - Mahiai Farmer, Hawaii

Raj Kumar

Self - Senior Pedologist, Department of Soils, Punjab Agricultural University

Satish Kumar

Self - Editor of Resurgence Magazine and Program Director of Schumacher College

Timothy Lasalle

Self - CEO 2007 - 2010, The Rodale Institute

Ala Lindsey

Self - Researcher with Stanford University Research Team, Kohala, Hawaii

Kevin Lunny

Self - Rancher, Lunny Ranch, Inverness, CA

Harry MacCormack

Self - Organic Farmer, Sunbow Farm, Corvallis, OR

Klaas Martens

Self - Organic Farmer, Martens' Farm, Penn Yan, NY

Mary Howell Martens

Self - Farmer and Manager of Lakeview Organic Grain, Martens' Farm, Penn Yan, NY

Steve McGrath

Self - Senior Principal Scientist, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom

Bill McKibben

Self - Scholar in Residence at Middlebury College

Jeffrey W. Moyer

Self - Farm Director, The Rodale Institute

David Pimentel

Self - Professor of Ecology and Agricultural Sciences, Cornell University

Warren Porter

Self - Professor of Zoology & Environmental Toxicology and an Affiliate Faculty Member of Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Sohan Prihar

Self - Retired Professor of Soil Physics, Punjab Agricultural University

Will Raap

Self - Environmental Entrepreneur, The Intervale, VT

Judith Redmond

Self - Farmer and Partner at Full Belly Farm, CA

Ray Schutte

Self - Community Garden Advocate and President of P-Patch Trust, Seattle, WA

Peter Segger

Self - Farmer, Blaencamel Farm, Wales

Balwinder Singh

Self - Farmer, Kothy Gradhirin Wala, Punjab, India

Chamkour Singh

Self - Farmer, Kheti Virasat Mission, Punjab, India

M.P. Singh

Self - Soil Scientist, Navdanya Farm, Dehradun, India

Rajendra Singh

Self - Water Conservationist and Founder of Tarun Bharat Sangh, Rajasthan, India

Sally Smith

Self - Former Head of Information and Training at Garden Organic Ryton, Coventry, United Kingdom

Saran Sohi

Self - Former Soil Researcher, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom

Janice Thies

Self - International Professor for Soil Biology, Cornell University

Peter Vitousek

Self - Professor of Biology, Stanford University

Hans Werner

Self - Founder of Sekem Medical Clinic

Edward Yeboah

Self - Research Scientist, Soil Research Institute, Ghana, and Rothamsted International African Fellow, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom