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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Fwd: Permaculture TV - The Real Dirt On Farmer John
  • Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:23:23 -0500

Permaculture Cooperative wrote:

The Real Dirt On Farmer John
>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/permaculture/EHmn/~3/wsnGIEIjlF4/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email>

Posted: 30 Nov 2009 10:47 AM PST

A fantastic story about an idiosyncratic child of the sixties who inherits
his fathers farm, almost destroys it, and then reinvents himself as an
organic farmer–with flare!

More idiot than idiosyncratic, some prancing fruitloop finally gets the message: INHERITS A WORLDCLASS FARM AND NEARLY TRASHES IT WHEN HE COULD HAVE FARMED THE LAND SUSTAINABLY AND MADE A GOOD LIVING WHILE WORKING COOPERATIVELY WITH HIS FARMER NEIGHBORS AND BEEN PART OF THE EMERGING NARURAL BIOINTENSIVE AGRICULTURE AND BACK-TO-THE-LAND MOVEMENT OF THE SIXTIES AND SEVENTIES.

Source: Care2 <http://care2.com>

For close to a century, a great American epic has been played out in the
tiny town of Caledonia, Illinois, about 75 miles west of Chicago. THE REAL
DIRT ON FARMER JOHN tells the story of one man, his farm and his family—a
story that parallels the history of American farming. But Farmer John is no
laconic, Grant Wood-type with a scowl and a pitchfork. Equal parts
performance artist, writer and farmer, John Peterson has been known to
switch out of his overalls into leopard latex or a purple-feathered boa.

Source: PBS <http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/realdirt/film.html>

Typical half-baked media hype you see these days - appease the progressives without doing anything substantial for real farmers,
much less giving them media coverage; farming sustainably, committed to it for a lifetime, come what may, struggling to survive.

Why don't you post some articles on real farmers, urban or rural.

bail me out ktho...

LL




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