LOST ARTS is a documentary series exploring the hidden costs of the modern food system through the lives of ten visionaries working across the Hudson Valley. From wheat growers and beekeepers to seed savers, mushroom cultivators, dairy farmers, toolmakers, and community gardeners, each episode examines a fundamental element of agriculture and the people reclaiming knowledge nearly lost to industrialization.

Set against the rich agricultural landscape of the Hudson Valley, the series is both an intimate portrait of regional food culture and a broader meditation on humanity’s relationship to land,labor, and sustenance. The individuals at its center are not simply producing food — they are challenging dominant ideas of efficiency, value, and progress by reviving sustainable practices rooted in stewardship, biodiversity, and community.

At the heart of Lost Arts lies a central question: What does food truly cost?

In a system driven by convenience and cheap production, the series interrogates what is hidden behind the price tag — environmental depletion, disappearing traditions, exploited labor, declining health, and fractured relationships to the natural world. By looking to forgotten methods and inherited wisdom, these farmers, artisans, and growers offer an alternative vision for the future: one where food is valued not only as a commodity, but as culture, ecology, and collective survival.

Part observational documentary, part philosophical reflection, Lost Arts invites audiences to reconsider what they consume, where it comes from, and what kind of future is being cultivated.