Fine Young Farmers - The Greenhorns Trailer

by Rebecca Flint Marx, Posted May 7th 2009 @ 4:00PM

Know any young farmers who should be stars? There's a good chance that Severine von Tscharner Fleming will want to put them on the big screen. Here is the trailer for the activist-agrarian-filmmaker's new documentary, "The Greenhorns," which will profile young farmers across the country. And she's still looking for grubby-pawed, land-lovin' talent.

Von Tscharner Fleming's star seems to be on the rise. After watching her speak at last weekend's Brooklyn Food Conference, one attendee who follows the sustainable food scene gushed, "I'm pretty sure I haven't been in the room with someone so brilliant and uniquely articulate all that many other times in my life." Judging from her film's trailer, there's reason to be excited: interspersed with scenes of bucolic gardens and fields are thought-provoking interviews with farmers who talk about their motivation for going back to the land and changing their lives and the lives around them. Here's hoping it will hit theaters before harvest season ends.

[Via The Greenhorns]

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5-07-2009 @4:16PM BraH said... Oh come on! This is gardening, not farming!

Another "documentary" with an obvious bias. It's a shame that so many people are ignorant enough to fall for this.
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5-07-2009 @6:33PM Eric Howe said... BraH, maybe you should have done a bit of reading before dissing this film. Sure, there are some small scale urban "gardeners" but it looks like there are some larger operations involved as well: http://www.thegreenhorns.net/farmers.html

Just because you don't operate a massive farm that is trying to grow enough food to feed a city doesn't mean you're not a farmer.
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5-07-2009 @9:52PM BraH said... I've done my research Mr. Howe, and the largest farm listed or showcased there is a 4 1/2 acre patch. I spent 22 years on a 3rd generation central Texas family farm and know the ins and outs of modern agriculture. These are glorified hobby gardens, not farms, and should not be mistaken as such.

From the letter I e-mailed to the movie director,
Severine von Tscharner Fleming:
"We real farmers are competing with a world market, against the true detriments to the environment and humanity: Brazil's slash-and-burn farms, China's (for all intents and purposes) slave labor force, foreign subsidization, import and export tariffs, the demonization of our craft.

Our tools to survive and feed the world are Genetically Modified (GM) crops, the use of safe and biodegradable herbicides and pesticides, embracing technology and machinery, and proper plant stewardship on a scale large enough to compete and feed tens if not hundreds of thousands of people for a year. GM crops aren't an abomination, they exist because we want to provide the world with the safest product we can. The GM hybrids in rotation are resistant to worms and grubs, fungi, bacteria and certain herbicides, allowing us to use those chemicals to control the weeds which harbor all those I mentioned before. No GM crop is changed to increase yield. That's accomplished by generations of husbandry and selective breeding. Our herbicides and pesticides, by and large, aren't even detectable in a field days after administration, because they are designed to break down in the presence of heat, light and/or moisture."

If you'd like me to continue I can tear apart the misinformation in Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and show the human death toll of restricted DDT use, Eric. The environmental green movement has cost too many lives to be allowed to continue.

Or I am just an ignorant redneck butcher and farmer?
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5-09-2009 @9:28AM Chef JoAnna said... I'm in the process of converting 10 acres of land in TN from a forest to a "Bed & Bistro" with an organic farm.

Website: http://MockingbirdAcres.com/

Blog: http://MockingbirdAcres.blogspot.com

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