Friday, April 01, 2005

The Real Dirt on Farmer John

For those of you who will miss the opening of the Chicago International Documentary Film Festival, here is a synopsis of the film premiering tonight, “The Real Dirt on Farmer John.”
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Directed by Taggart Siegel, the film chronicles over 20 years of farmer John Peterson’s struggle to hold onto his family farm in northern Illinois. During the Reagan years, as family farms collapsed, Peterson lost most of his land, but eventually the business was reborn as a subscriber-supported organic farm that drew Chicagoans to work the fields and divide the crops.

1 comment:

Nick Short said...

A FARMER WHO'S A CROSSDRESSER! There's a sitcom a brewin'.