Three Freeport concerns with direct ties to locally produced food will be among the four presenters on Thursday, Feb. 26, following the screening of the film “Growing Local,” at the Freeport Community Center.

Wolfe’s Neck Farm and the Freeport Conservation Trust are co-hosting the film and panel discussion, which will run from 7-9 p.m. There is no admission charge.

Maine Farmland Trust produced “Growing Local,” filmed by Seedlight Pictures. The film tells the story of three Maine farms, their challenges and their successes. Maine Farmland Trust is a statewide organization that works to protect farmland and support farmers.

Katrina Van Dusen, executive director of Freeport Conservation Trust; Dave Herring, executive director of Wolfe’s Neck Farm in Freeport; and Sarah Wiederkehr, co-owner of Winter Hill Farm in Freeport, will be among the four panelists. Ben Slayton, who runs Farmers’ Gate Market, a meat store in Wales, and a farm stand in South Portland, also will speak following the film.

The Freeport Conservation Trust is a land-conservation organization that helps secure easements, such as the one it arranged for Winter Hill Farm, which has 56 protected acres on Hill Farm Road. Wiederkehr and her husband, Steve Burger, run the farm.

“We’ve been the last dairy farm in Freeport for quite some time,” Wiederkehr said. “We’re primarily dairy, but we also raise butcher pigs, chickens and raise vegetables. He milks, and I make cheese and raise the vegetables.”

Wiederkehr said she spoke two weeks ago during an earlier screening of “Growing Local,” at Bowdoin College.

“It’s a good conversation piece, how to address issues,” she said. “The average age of a farmer just keeps getting older, and it’s harder and harder to get land.”

Wolfe’s Neck Farm is a 626-acre saltwater farm that partners with area farmers to pasture beef cattle, hosts educational events and sets an example for practicing sustainable agriculture and recreation. Herring said he will be watching “Growing Local” for the first time on Thursday.

“We had great interest in showing that movie to our constituents, and at the very same time, Katrina expressed interest in doing the same,” Herring said. “We’re thrilled with the group of panelists that has been put together, locally related on the local food movement. We’ll give the audience the opportunity to hear comments off the movie.”

Herring said that one of the three segments in the film depicts a dairy farmer challenged by transitioning the farm from one generation to the next, and with debt. He praised Maine Farmland Trust for supporting local agriculture, which, he said, is a means of supporting neighbors and land protection, which is the work of Freeport Conservation Trust.

“It’s always important to highlight the benefits of supporting local agriculture,” Herring said. “That’s really the point of the film.”