Real Dirt on Farmer John, The

After eccentric, flamboyant, idealistic, and passionate Illinois farmer John Peterson, who has a theatrical flare and an artistic bent, is unjustly ostracized by his conservative community and files for bankruptcy in the 1980s in this enlightening, captivating, and often whimsical documentary that intersperses home movies and interviews with family, friends, and leery neighbors and covers 55 years, he struggles to hold on to the farm that had been nurtured and cherished by his family for generations and to revitalize his now 22-acre Angelic Organics farm by cultivating more than thirty types of organic crops.
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