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...Today, Locke's narrow, dirt paths, stray cats and precariously-leaning buildings conceal a secret: Locke's identity is changing. Today, only 12 of the 80 residents are Chinese, with whites and Latinos having gradually replaced the founding population. On weekends, most visitors are leather-clad bikers who stop in to grab a steak and beer at Al the Wop's, one of Locke's two restaurants...
...Such concerns are mystifying for the dirt-streaked farmers who are loading their produce onto ships in Guanlei, the Yunnan port from which most Chinese goods set sail down the Mekong. "I've heard it's hard to grow crops in the countries downriver," says Wu Zhencha, who has arrived in Guanlei with boxes of broccoli destined for Thailand and who is unaware that the Mekong basin is, in fact, one of the most fertile regions on earth. Because of the trade with Indochina, Wu's village now boasts a paved road linking it to the highway. Modern pleasures like...
...never been trained to taste the dirt; it’s an old tradition I was paying deference to,” he said during a phone interview last month from Los Angeles. “I’m sure there are more nuances that can be discerned...
...Real Dirt on Farmer John,” opening Sept. 7 in wide release, is a telling portrait of John Peterson, a curiously eccentric Indiana farmer who eats dirt straight from the ground and drives a tractor in a dress and a pink-feathered...
Those hoping for an objective look at the role of organics or the farming industry in general will be disappointed; despite the movie’s title, the documentary is noticeably dirt-free and stays clear of the controversy over organic farming. Casting community farming as the savior of American farms over evil big business, Siegel glosses over certain questions—for instance, what is the role of the wealthy urban “shareholders” who apparently fund the operation...