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The Real Dirt on Farmer John
2006 · Film · documentary · 82 min
Directed by Taggart Siegel
An outcast in his community, Farmer John bravely stands amidst a failing economy, vicious rumors, and violence. By melding the traditions of family farming with the power of art and free expression, this powerful story of transformation and renewal heralds a resurrection of farming in America. Through highly personal interviews and 50 years of beautifully textured footage, filmmaker Taggart Siegel shares Farmer John’s haunting and humorous odyssey, capturing what it means to be wildly different in a rural community.
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For a great documentary on the conversion of fertile agricultural land to suburbs, watch:
The Real Dirt On Farmer John
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_Dirt_on_Farmer_John
I'm sure the video is on youboob or some other user exploitation site...
It's kind of funny to watch these complaints, when the thing covering farmland isn't in for profit utilitie's interests.
Massive real estate development has already covered huge tracts of fertile farmland. See, "The Real Dirt on Farmer John":
https://angelicorganics.com/watch-the-movie/
With more housing per capita than at any time in US history, somehow we still have a "housing crisis" that requires paving over farmmland, but the possibiity eco disaster somehow doesn't justify the same...
At least those acres are producing electricity.
The elimination of farmland to non-farming uses is not new with solar.
Watch the grizzly old farmer cry in "The Real Dirt on Farmer John":
https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/realdirt/#film-info
This kind of farmers revolutions crop all the time in history, thanksfully! I'm a bit sceptical about the taste of seaweed having being in Japan already, but of course he is right.
Just see the land farmers revolutions, fighting industrial farming with new methods. Organic farming (the "bio" label), sellers collectives, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). Previously they had to fight the big mills and banks, now the industry, the government and Monsanto just to keep the nature and ourself healthy.
There's a whole film festival for new farming http://www.mefarms.org/community-kitchen/food-farm-film-festival/ with lots of recommendations.
"The Real Dirt on Farmer John" (my favorite) http://www.angelicorganics.com/ and esp. http://learngrowconnect.org/
http://foodforthoughtfilm.com/, ...