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After enduring a four-year drought, an off-grid farmer embarks on a kayaking journey from her hometown creek in Appalachia all the way to the Gulf—seeking to reconnect with and redefine her relationship to water.
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00:01Throughout my 20 years of farming I have learned just how unpredictable water can be.
00:08I have been in a five-year drought and I'm not sure I'm going to be able to continue to
00:13farm.
00:17There was an eight inch or so six or eight inch pipe sticking out from under a rock in the
00:22backyard and it was running full of water.
00:25That's when I thought, I'm going to follow that water until it gets to the ocean.
00:32And then I mapped it out and you can.
00:38We're supposed to care about our neighbors, we're supposed to care about family,
00:42care about animals and care about food and water.
00:46We're supposed to care, we're human beings.
00:49We're just supposed to get in the water.
00:51Okay, let's get you out there.
00:52I'm pretty confident I'll be okay.
00:54I have a lot more faith in humanity than some of my friends.
00:57You know, I'm getting up there in years.
00:59I'm not as strong as I used to be, but I still think I could kick somebody in the nuts.
01:03I don't know if it has a name. I'm sure it does.
01:05We're right below Foster Falls.
01:06I'm going to call it the Devil's Backbone.
01:12Run!
01:15Motherfuckers!
01:22I'm looking for the bottom left on my boat when I get through here.
01:27If everything goes my way, I'm hoping to make it to the Gulf of Mexico in 75 days.
01:33The wind was shitty. The water was shitty. The city is shitty. I want to go home.
01:41Hurricane Helene is now a category four.
01:43This is not a maybe. This is on track to happen.
01:47I'm fucking scared to death.
01:49But I've been scared to death before.
01:51And I'm still here.
01:53Haley, where are you with the boat?
01:56Two alligators spun out underneath me and broke my rudder.
01:59I'm stuck in the coal hole.
02:05And I'm still here to eat the compass.
02:11I'm trying to get caught.
02:11I were gonna earn it nonetheless.
02:11I'm fromPeace Hall.
02:11I'm sorry.
02:12I've been scared of me.
02:12How to run, forget warto?
02:13I was like Maximum.

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