Storyline

Filmmaker Taggart Siegel captures two turbulent decades in the life of John Peterson, an Illinois farmer who not only tends the land but also delves into writing and performance art. A man who would as soon work the fields in a feather boa as in a pair of jeans, Peterson rises out of the bankruptcy and depression plaguing Midwest farm communities in the 1980s and saves his livelihood through organic agriculture.

Plot Keywords

farmer, father, mother, elderly person, engaging, inspiring, emotional, farm, illinois, mexico, midwest, writing, farming, financial troubles, self-discovery, outsider's life, transformation, quest, love, 1980s

Short Review

It also, not incidentally, an inspiring vision of the way forward for food production, a portrait of what Peterson calls "a dead farm coming back to life". After reading The Omnivore's Dilemma, it may be just the antidote you need.

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