Natural Heroes TV

Using green roof technology and heirloom seeds, filmmaker Ian Cheney (“The City Dark” on P.O.V. and “King Corn” on Independent Lens) plants a vegetable garden on the only land he’s got in the heart of New York City: his Granddad’s old pickup.

Emmy Award Nomination 2013-2014
National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences,
San Francisco Chapter
Lifestyle Program category

With help from celebrity activitists (Darryl Hannah, Joan Baez, Martin Sheen, and Willie Nelson), this film profiles the controversy over the South Central Farm in Los Angeles, the largest urban garden in the country.