GROW!: Hope Grows Farm, Sylvania, GA

Friday, July 16, 2010

Hope Grows Farm, Sylvania, GA

Arianne

Elliott

They've got 500 chickens out there laying 300 eggs a day!

Moving day for the K-22 Poulet Rouge type broilers

Pork and Chop, the Berkshire pigs, get cooled off

We were embedded for a couple of days with Arianne McGinnis and Elliott McGann, the "Farm Czars" of Hope Grows, a pasture based livestock operation about an hour north of Savannah. We filmed, we ate, we laughed, we filmed, and then we ate some more. They're great people doing great stuff. Go to their blog to find out more freshfarming.blogspot.com/

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GROW!
A 60 minute documentary that captures the energy and independence of a fresh crop of young farmers.

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It's not just 'Old MacDonald' on the farm anymore. All across the U.S. there is a growing movement of educated young people who are leaving the cities to take up an agrarian life. Armed with college degrees, some are unable to find jobs in the current economic slump. Fed up with corporate America and its influence on a broken food system, they aim to solve some of the current system's inequities by growing clean, fair food. Mostly landless, they borrow, rent or manage farmland in order to fulfill their dreams of doing something meaningful with their lives.

GROW! takes a look at this new generation of sustainable farmers through the eyes, hearts and minds of 20 passionate, idealistic and fiercely independent young growers. In the film they speak of both the joys and the challenges involved in tending the land.

Filmed on 12 farms throughout the state of Georgia during an entire growing season, GROW! provides an honest and inspiring look at this next generation of farmers.

Anybody who appreciates the value of good, wholesome food grown close to home, who cares about our food supply and the future of farming will want to see GROW!

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