The Last Crop tells a personal tale of a family caught in the middle of a delicate interplay between urban and agricultural space in California’s Central Valley. Annie and Jeff Main own a 20-acre organic farm that serves the Sacramento/San Francisco communities. After 30 years of farming, they are finding it harder to remain viable in a rapidly changing highly competitive environment. The film captures the intractable nature of sustaining a small family farm in contemporary California, the sacrifices farming families like the Mains must make to keep their dream alive, and the difficulties involved with passing the land to the next generation of farmer. Panhandle Productions is currently in the field- assisting Blueprint Productions with filming of The Last Crop.
In 2009, Panhandle Productions interviewed baseball legend Willie Mays. This video was part of a larger documentary project produced for the San Francisco Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
Planet Forward is a leading organization on climate change debate. It's website asks prominent policy makers around the world one critical question: How can we move rapidly away from fossil fuels? In the spring of 2009, Panhandle Productions had the opportunity to interview four recognized climate change figures in the Bay Area: Dan Kammen, Sally Benson, Holmes Hummel, and Michael Shellenberger. Their interviews helped comprise a broader documentary by PBS on Planet Forward.