Watch The First Season

Already with three children with another coming soon, a loving husband and wife drop everything, leave the comforts of the city and take their entire life savings to buy a withered plot of land that formerly served as a dairy farm. As the growing family homesteads the land and attempts to put the dairy back into production, they are faced with harsh weather, hunger, the fluctuating prices that face farmers and all manner of day-to-day hardships. This gripping family drama should hit especially close to home for anyone who has dreamed of leaving the materialistic world behind in favor of life of simplicity and hard work.

The First Season is a 2012 documentary with a runtime of 1 hour and 23 minutes. It has received mostly positive reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 6.8.