Amber Rubarth's COVER CROP MUSIC
Created by artist, producer & actor Amber Rubarth, Cover Crop is an episodic video series bringing music performances to farms across North America with the aim of creating more generosity, connection, and sustainability through food, community, and music.
Cover Crop is also a visual celebration and exploration of the passions and hardships of small scale sustainable farms throughout North America. In the spirit of reciprocity, Rubarth offers music, often featuring other guest musicians, as her way of feeding back into the environment that nourishes her.
Each episode explores a conversation with the farmer around their particular offering, why it’s important today, and their biggest challenges. Combining the cultural curiosity of Anthony Bourdain’s “Parts Unknown” with the musical offering of NPR’s “Tiny Desk Concerts,” each episode brings a delightful balance of education and entertainment through storytelling and beautiful imagery of the natural world, allowing the audience to learn more about how to weave in with their own local agriculture options, as well as the broader awareness of “giving back to the environments that nourish us” for long-term sustainability.
To lift this important work, Unmanageable is hosting a series of intimate fundraising events across the US from Fall 2025 - Spring 2026 before production begins. If you are interested in hosting a Cover Crop event, or would like to support the project, please send an email to info@unmgmt.org
ABOUT AMBER RUBARTH: In her unassuming yet beguiling way, Amber Rubarth draws you into a world where wonder and high-minded concepts weave into a poetic tapestry, "knocking down walls with songs so strong they sound like classics.” -Acoustic Guitar. She has toured extensively from South Africa to Japan and all throughout Europe and North America including appearances at Carnegie Hall and Glastonbury Festival, opening for legendary artists including Emmylou Harris, Richie Havens and Dr. Ralph Stanley.
Rubarth made her acting debut starring in the feature film American Folk (out now on Amazon), winning numerous festival awards, and the Hollywood Reporter calling it "Superb... A heartfelt homage to American folk music,” and Rolling Stone “Enchanting… discovering two wondrous new voices.” Her eighth solo album Cover Crop offers a meditation on our interconnectivity with nature, and was self-produced in the woods of the Hudson Valley, NY with 15 reinterpretations of beloved songs through the lens of environmental sustainability. Cover Crop is the inspiration for a new episodic video series bringing music performances to farms across North America.