Filmmaker’s adventure creates a connection to nature he shares in ‘Biggest Little Farm’

In the Oscar-shortlisted documentary “The Biggest Little Farm,” filmmaker and farmer John Chester and his wife, Molly, leave Santa Monica to transform a dried-up 200-acre former ranch in Moorpark into a frothy and alive biodiverse working farm, called Apricot Lane Farms. John Chester, who directed, co-wrote and narrated the film ...