The second-season finale of Charlotte filmmaker Chiara Hollender’s “Women of the Earth,” featuring Vermont farmer Corie Pierce of Bread & Butter Farm, will go live on pbs.com and on the PBS Terra YouTube channel this Thursday, March 12.
Hollender, 31, created and directed the “Women of the Earth” documentary series from PBS Terra to share the stories of women stewarding the land and cultivating climate solutions across the country. The episode about Pierce, who owns a diversified farm that straddles the South Burlington-Shelburne line, is the 11th and final one produced so far. Hollender said it “explores what resilience truly looks like for a Vermont farm in an era of intensifying floods.”
Hollender noted that Pierce’s husband, musician Chris Dorman, composed all the music for the episode.
Past episodes have featured urban beekeeper and educator Nicole Rivera Hartery of Riverton, N.J.; and Lucille Contreras, founder of the Texas Tribal Buffalo Project, an Indigenous-led effort to restore bison to Apache land. The 11th episode is the only one so far to highlight a farmer from Hollender’s home state. The filmmaker said it may also be the series finale.
“PBS is on board to distribute another season, but federal funding cuts have made the future of many ongoing series uncertain, including mine,” Hollender said. If the episode about Pierce is the last, she reflected, “The fact that it focuses on the community I’ve spent almost all of my life in [makes it] all the more special.”
Corrected March 11, 2026: An earlier version of this story incorrectly described the episode’s release.
This article appears in March 11 • 2026.
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