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John Peterson is a man who doesn’t just farm the land—he eats it. In the opening scenes of his upcoming movie, “The Real Dirt on Farmer John,” Peterson ruminates over a patch of farmland like a wine connoisseur sampling a rare vintage...
Farmer John says that his life story, as displayed in director Taggart Siegel’s documentary, captures his farm’s “coming back to life” after going bankrupt in the 1980s. With help from Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) investors, the family farm was rechristened Angelic Organics, which now specializes in providing organic products to its roughly 6,000 community shareholders...
...Director Siegel] and I were standing in fields of organic peppers on my farm...that’s when we realized we were standing in the midst of a miracle,” Peterson says. “That’s because farms never come back to life...it was a resurrection story that we had to share with the rest of the world...
Despite the success of his organic farm, however, Farmer John remains cautiously optimistic about the future of the organics movement...
...says that “agribusiness” has been building a greater presence in the organic foods market recently, but dismissed the idea that natural food chains such as Whole Foods could supplant the authenticity of the CSA farm or its emphasis on sustainability...