GREENFIELD — As Pioneer Valley farmers continue to contend with extreme weather year after year, The LAVA Center has announced a new short-form documentary highlighting the intersections of climate change and the food system.

“Rising River’s Edge: The Climate Crisis in Franklin County” is a documentary, expected to be between 20 and 30 minutes long once it is complete, that will explore how Franklin County’s agricultural industry is adapting to severe weather — such as floods in July 2023 that ravaged the region — as well as how individuals are coping with the impacts of rising prices caused by these events.

Matthew Barlow, The LAVA Center’s humanities coordinator, said “Rising River’s Edge” is directly inspired by the 2023 flooding, as he said he has “never seen the Connecticut River so high.” He noted the documentary will examine the effects of climate change across the entire region.

“A lot of this, too, is about the land around us. You can see the marks of climate change,” Barlow said. “We’re looking at this from a larger Franklin County perspective as well, from Orange to Charlemont, from Sunderland to Northfield.”

Barlow is joined on the project by Clara Witty, a projects assistant with The LAVA Center, and videographer Hugh Finnerty.

“I believe this film has a chance to ask questions about our relationship to agriculture and climate,” Finnerty said in a statement, “in a way that is relevant to a national conversation about the systems we have opted into, either consciously or subconsciously.”

The documentary evolved from the two previous LAVA Center projects of “indiVISIBLE” and “Behind the Tofu Curtain,” as well as Barlow’s experience as former president of Just Roots farm’s board of directors.

While the farming aspect of the documentary will be obvious — “everyone is just getting crushed” — Barlow said the consumer focus of the project will take a look at several things folks are doing. One interesting example, he said, is the ever-increasing number and sizes of home gardens.

“Something I’ve also noticed around town is gardens are getting bigger and bigger, and more and more vegetables are getting planted,” Barlow said.

Work on “Rising River’s Edge” will begin in earnest in January, with all interviews expected to be done by the end of February at the latest, according to Barlow. The documentary is expected to be wrapped up by July and the first screening will likely be at the Greenfield Public Library.

The project is funded by a $20,000 Expand Massachusetts Stories grant from Mass Humanities, Massachusetts’ state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Additional support is coming from the Northampton-based Markham-Nathan Fund for Social Justice and Greening Greenfield. Barlow added that state Sen. Jo Comerford, Reps. Natalie Blais and Susannah Whipps, as well as the Greenfield Public Library have also provided assistance.

“It’s very much a Greenfield coalition behind us,” Barlow said. “Once we get past the holidays, we’ll dive in head first.”

Chris Larabee can be reached at clarabee@recorder.com.