Word: peterson
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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...
...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...
...truly a mystery. Peter G. Peterson, a co-founder of the Blackstone Group, was one of the great deficit bores of the 1980s and 1990s, warning about the huge gap between what society had promised people and what would be available to keep those promises. (He was right, but it was still boring.) Peterson made $1.88 billion when Blackstone went public last month. Here was an opportunity for statesmanship that you would have thought Peterson would be unable to resist. Like Warren Buffett and Bill Gates Sr., he could be the rich man who speaks the truth to other rich...
...also, along the way, became the star of a documentary film, The Real Dirt on Farmer John, which opens this weekend in New York City and in several more cities over the coming weeks. An account of Peterson's struggles as a family farmer and his recent success as part of the grass-roots "community farming" movement, the film, directed by Taggart Siegel, was released on the festival circuit in 2005 and has been traversing the world ever since. As it has toured, Peterson has traveled with it, championing the issues of localized farming and sustainable agriculture much...
...film highlights the success of community-supported agriculture (CSA), the concept those Chicagoans originally brought to Peterson. "My wife and I had just returned from Burlington, Vermont," recalls Bob Scheffler, who helped organize the Chicago CSA group, "and somehow our friends out there had stumbled on a small, three-acre farm just outside of town run by a commuter farmer. He lived in an apartment in town, left his tractor chained to a tree and he would bring food into town. So he was farming this plot for a bunch of people in town. Everyone seemed so happy with...