Farming in a feather boa

Posted by Siel in art/lit/music, environment, food (Thursday April 5, 2007 at 5:45 pm)

Readers in Chicago (hi Anne!) — Farmer John, your local Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farmer — dishes the dirt in his new film — and I wrote a review about it for Treehugger:

What do orange feather boas have to do with farming? For Midwestern farmer John Peterson, bright, glammy outfits work just fine for his 80-90 hour weeks on the Angelic Organics farm. “I love glitz, I love glitter, I love glamour,” says Farmer John while driving a tractor through his farm in rural Illinois, in The Real Dirt on Farmer John, a documentary about his tempestuous relationship with the farming life.