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The Real Dirt on Farmer John by Farmer-John Peterson
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Documentary on a farmer's life.
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In one breath... We watch as John's evolving life is documented from an early age, unique in and of itself... we have a farm-raised boy, who comes of age, looses his father, leaves his family's homestead, discovers worldly pleasures and culture, returns to his roots bringing his quirky, unorthodox friends and lifestyle with him, and spend the rest of his life cultivating creative and resourceful ways to keep what remains of the family farm, eventually making peace with his critical and skeptical neighbors. The documentary is interesting, inspiring, and holds your attention with the ups and downs and twists and turns John Peterson's life takes and the lives he impacts along the way. I recommend you check out this website about "The Real Dirt on Farmer" John: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/realdirt/film.html.
Cris' keywords: movie, documentary, film, John Peterson, farming, Farmer John, organic, CSA, Angelic Organics
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An amazing epic
If you need a dose of inspiration, check out this film. It tells the amazing true life story of the founder of Angelic Organic Farms, complete with land foreclosures, hippy shenanigans, and suspicious neighbors. Inspiring!
David's keywords: film csa, Angelic Organic Farms
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The Real Dirt on Farmer John is excellent
I recently saw the film "The Real Dirt on Farmer John," about Farmer John Peterson who transcends a Dante-esque path trying to manage a mid-western family farm and convert it to organics and bio-dynamics.
This film is moving and warm with a lot of serious topics blended in with humor and style...most of all because John's mother was a film buff who started filming the working family farm in the late 40's.
His mom captured the scenes of a farm being run the way it been done for centuries beforehand, all the way into the 60's until the Hippie film makers came into the picture, as John entered college.
The film chronicles the demise of the farm under John's management into the 80's, where Taggart Siegel filmed a documentary on John about the American farm crisis.
The movie then brings us into through the transition of the farm to organic and then affiliated with Community Supported Agriculture. The CSA is the connection between a community and their healthy, sustainable foods grown seasonally and nearby to them.
I give this movie a super 5 star rating because it reminds us of so many of the simplest and dearest things to us which aren't about work and money.
James' keywords: farmer, john peterson, real dirt on vegetables
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