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The Real Dirt on Farmer John |
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Mar 18 (Tue) 7:00pm, SLO Library, $5
Apr 9 (Wed) 6:00pm, food & film, Templeton, $5
Trailer |Flyer
Follows Farmer John’s astonishing journey from farm boy to
counter-culture rebel to the son who almost lost the family farm to a
beacon of today’s booming organic farming movement and founder of one
of the nation’s largest Community Supported Agriculture farms. The
result is a tale that ebbs and flows with the fortunes of the soil and
revealingly mirrors the changing American times. At once funny and
stirring, what drives the film’s powerful appeal is the way in which it
digs up “real dirt” not only about the tragedy of losing our
traditional American family farms but about what really makes for an
original American life - one lived, on a man’s own terms, in balance
with the land, through hardships and unexpected triumphs, with
creativity and verve.
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