Newly Funded
Harvest
In Sondheimer, Louisiana, a town of 200 people, fourth-generation Black farmers are determined to build a future on the land their family has worked for generations.
The Nelson brothers are young, ambitious, and deeply rooted in one another and the rural community they call home. They dream of becoming some of the biggest farmers in America, but the path forward is anything but certain. When they take on a new land lease to expand their operation, they find themselves navigating rising costs, an increasingly unpredictable climate, financial pressures, and brotherly tensions that threaten their livelihoods.
Against the landscape of the American South, the brothers work, argue, joke, and strategize, revealing both the intimacy and strain of a family bound by a shared dream. Their story offers a nuanced portrait of contemporary rural America—one shaped by history and inequality, but also by ingenuity, resilience, and hope.
Part family portrait, part meditation on land and legacy, Harvest follows the Nelson brothers as they confront a fundamental question: how do you honor where you come from while finding a way to where you want to go?