Here’s how to watch The Biggest Little Farm online including whether the documentary is available to stream with Netflix, Hulu, and Prime. Director John Chester has spent the last 25 years making documentaries for film and television. The A&E docuseries Random 1 was co-created by Chester and his friend Andre Miller and saw the pair travel from town to town doing random good deeds for strangers, while his 2009 documentary feature Rock Prophecies profiled legendary rock and roll photographer Robert M. Knight.
Chester recently turned the lens on his own life with his 2018 documentary feature The Biggest Little Farm, one of the most streamed Netflix documentaries where it's available. Filmed over the course of eight years, The Biggest Little Farm chronicles the journey of John Chester and his wife Molly as they leave the rat race of Los Angeles behind to set up their own sustainable farm on an arid plot of land in Moorpark, California. The movie follows the Chesters as they build their plot (renamed Apricot Lane Farms by the couple) up from its humble beginnings to a fully functioning biodiverse farm that grows over 75 different varieties of fruit and is home to a menagerie of animals including chickens, ducks, pigs, sheep and cows.
The Biggest Little Farm premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in 2018 and soon after made its way around the film fest circuit where it won Best Documentary at both the Palm Springs and Boulder International Film Festivals. It also made the shortlist for Best Documentary Feature at the 2019 Academy Awards. However, as many have noted, The Biggest Little Farm Netflix library inclusion is only offered in a few territories, so where can animal and nature lovers watch The Biggest Little Farm online?
The Biggest Little Farm: Where To Watch
At the moment, The Biggest Little Farm Netflix distribution is unfortunately limited. It’s only available to stream in a few countries including Argentina, Canada, and Mexico at the moment. The award-winning documentary is also currently listed in Hulu’s library, and it’s also on Amazon Prime, although it’s not included with membership and costs an additional $3.99 to rent. Other ways to rent The Biggest Little Farm include Google Play, iTunes, YouTube, Vudu, and the Microsoft Store.
For fans of the nature documentary genre whose interest was piqued by The Biggest Little Farm, there’s quite a bit of fellow Apricot Lane Farms-related content out there. John Chester previously directed several Emmy-winning documentary shorts including The Orphan and Worry For Maggie which aired as part of Oprah Winfrey’s talk show Super Soul Sunday and focuses on the animal inhabitants of Apricot Lane Farms. He also recently signed a deal with publisher Feiwel & Friends to pen a series of three The Biggest Little Farm spinoff children’s books, the first of which is titled Saving Emma The Pig and was published in 2019.
The Biggest Little Farm: The Return Is Available On Disney+
The Biggest Little Farm has come back to screens in the form of the Disney+ Earthday special, The Biggest Little Farm: The Return. The special, created by National Geographic, hit Disney+ in 2022. It follows John and Molly Chester's farming journey across an entire decade. Set at Apricot Lane Farms, The Biggest Little Farm: The Return catches up with the Chesters and offers a deeper look into the wild and varied biodiversity of the average American farmstead. While this Disney+ documentary is only a half-hour long, fans of The Littlest Big Farm will no doubt still fall in love with new additions to Apricot Lane like Emma the pig and Moe, the adorably friendly lamb. The Biggest Little Farm: The Return is currently available to stream on Disney+.