The Real Dirt on Farmer John
September 29, 2008 by Susie Collins
If you haven’t seen it, rent this movie!!!
THE REAL DIRT ON FARMER JOHN 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 (CSA) farms. The result is a tale that ebbs and flows with the fortunes of the soil and revealingly mirrors the changing American times.
Link to clip from the movie
I was lucky and caught it on a local TV channel. This was a great film to watch!
It’s one of those films where you are not quite the same person after having seen it. It touched me very deeply.
Susie, do you know how I can get a copy of the movie?
Ruth, I have a subscription to Netflix http://www.netflix.com/, a company that rents DVDs by mail. I used to belong to Blockbuster and used their Hilo store, but I get sick in there, so I was stoked to learn about Netflix. The movies come right to our mail box. You pay a set fee for having a certain number of movies in rotation and as soon as you send one back, they replenish it withing 24 hours. It’s super easy! You can build up a queue of movies online so they know what to send you next. We always have three movies in rotation for about $16 I think per month, it works out perfect for us.
I highly recommend Netflix for people with MCS. Only once have I had to put one of the DVDs in a plastic bag b/c it arrived with perfume on it. The perfume was only on the DVD’s paper case so I was ok with the disc itself.
Thanks! Will check that out. There’s a Family Video Store near my place, but not sure they would have this movie there. The trailer for this film is soooo inticing….really want to see it!
Take care, Ruth