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  • From: "Dervaes" <dervaes@pathtofreedom.com>
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  • Subject: [permaculture] HomeGrown Film: St Louis Film Festival
  • Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:57:34 -0800

HOMEGROWN - 21st Century Family Farm

Homegrown is the inspiring true story of a family "living off the grid" in
the heart of urban Pasadena, California. They harvest over 6,000 pounds of
produce on less than a quarter of an acre, while running a popular website
that is known around the world. The film is an intimate human portrait of
what it's like to live like "Little House on the Prairie" in the 21st
Century

FILM SYNOPSIS

By dawn, the interchange of the 134 Freeway and Interstate 210 is already
starting to thrum with traffic. But only a hundred feet away, the Dervaes
family has been up for hours. Their surprisingly tiny green oasis is a
working farm right in the middle of Pasadena. Once seen as a nutty idea, the
family homestead now produces three tons of organic produce a year. Jules
and his adult children, Justin, Anaïs and Jordanne speak candidly about what
shaped their family and their need for independence. We learn about Jules’
father, an oil executive with a green thumb, Jules’ adventures as a young
man homesteading in New Zealand, and the sorrows and hardships their family
has faced over the years, including divorce, lawsuits and a stint foraging
for recyclable cans. We watch them wrestle with their quest to live a simple
lifestyle even as their website, “Path To Freedom,” demands more attention
from followers around the world. Originally set up to share farming tips, it
now dangles tantalizing prospects of a financial windfall. But what would it
mean to sell ad space on their website instead of getting their hands dirty?
Would it change their way of life if they got used to easy money? And how
will Jules’ children be able to buy their own homesteads and carry on in the
future? There are no easy answers. But along the way, the Dervaes have grown
stronger and found a tight knit community based on family, friends, good
food, hard work, and the commitment to tread lightly upon the earth.

SCREENING THIS SUNDAY

Sunday, Nov 16 St Louis Film Festival Missouri

5:15 pm at the Tivoli Theatre 3

6350 Delmar Boulevard, St. Louis, MO

Film website www.homegrown-film.com




  • [permaculture] HomeGrown Film: St Louis Film Festival, Dervaes, 11/11/2008

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