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I have watched Alone in the Wilderness on PBS at least 20 times {no joke}. It is soooo well-made, I just can’t get enough of it. I always get a little giddy when I see it’s going to be on. It is about a man, Dick Proenekke, who decides at age 51 to see if Read More >>
Growing Farmers (Complete film 2012) from Peconic Land Trust Film on Vimeo. Tonight The Girl and I will be watching a short film called Growing Farmers. It’s about the Peconic Land Trust, an organization founded in the 1980’s to help New England farmers, whose families have owned the land for many, many generations. Basically, it Read More >>
Tonight The Girl and I are watching The Real Dirt on Farmer John. It’s a PBS documentary about a man, who after years of struggle {it appears both internal and external}, is able to rally and evolve from traditional farming into a thriving Organic CSA Food Co-Op farmer {sheesh, that’s a mouthful}. Farmer John is Read More >>
Tonight the Girl and I are going to feed my new bee fascination with the documentary, Queen of the Sun. The movie goes into detail about the collapsing bee colonies due to mono-culture growing practices and chemical pesticides. It also discusses the impact on the whole ecosystem, should the bee population continue to decline. If this doesn’t Read More >>
Whoa, am I glad it’s Friday! Tonight the Girl and I will be watching The Garden. It’s a film from 2008 {how have I not heard of this before now?} that chronicles the power struggle between low-income families and land developers over a community garden in South Central Los Angeles. When I watched the preview, Read More >>
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