The Real Dirt on Farmer John

Wednesday, January 23, 7 p.m., Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, at the newly renovated Ritz Theater location, 320 E. 6th Street

another Third Coast Film Night

The burgeoning community supported agriculture movement — advocating a system of farming predicated on closer relationships between farmers and the people who buy their food – is the ultimate subject of this warmhearted documentary profile of Wisconsin farmer John Peterson. Flamboyant yet laid-back, Farmer John’s singular personality sets the tone of the film, which retraces, through interviews and home movies, his decades-long struggles to keep the family farm in business, culminating in the creation of a rural community dedicated to agriculture and the arts.

“My family has been plowing and planting every Spring for generations. I inherited this history and I just about ended the whole thing . . .” — Farmer John

Tickets – $8.25 general / $6 student, senior – are available at the door or online at http://www.originalalamo.com/

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