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From explaining how much work goes into growing tomatoes to giving advice on feeding chickens or making compost, one Colombian teenager is busy educating people about farm life through a series of videos that he produces for Instagram with his older brother. His aim is to highlight the work of farmers and raise awareness about how to protect the environment.
Fourteen-year-old Carlos Alberto Díaz Colmenares lives on a farm in San Francisco, about 50 kilometres from the Colombian capital, Bogotá. He and his family moved there in 2020, just a few months after the Covid-19 pandemic began. Before, they were living in an apartment in La Vega, a nearby town.
“Farm work is hard, as we ourselves have realised. We need to value it and support it.”
This farm has belonged to my family for more than 20 years so we were already going there regularly before the pandemic and my parents have always known a lot about farming. But we decided to spend more time there starting in May 2020, two months after the start of lockdown because it was already easier to get out at that point. The farm was in a bad condition, so we worked until the end of July getting it back in shape and then my family and I moved there. During the pandemic, other people also left cities to go back to the countryside. I think that shows that we can be happy and live peacefully in the country.
In July 2020, Díaz Colmenares started making videos about farm work along with his older brother Juan, who has the role of cameraman. They post their videos on their Instagram account “La Granja del Borrego” (“Lamb’s Farm”), which has more than 281,000 followers. Some of their videos have garnered hundreds of thousands of views.
We filmed our first video on July 9, 2020. We had started to plant tomatoes and cucumbers and we decided to film…
Source : france24
