{"id":3012,"date":"2025-02-07T19:29:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T19:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grainplacefoundation.org\/blog\/?page_id=3012"},"modified":"2025-02-13T22:24:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T22:24:34","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/grainplacefoundation.org\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Dreaming of a Vetter World comes at a time when interest in farming regeneratively has exploded worldwide. Others are finally realizing what the Vetters have known for decades: eating food grown with pesticides is bad for us, and soil is key to our very survival. That\u2019s why, on the Vetter farm, their most important \u201ccrop\u201d is the soil.<\/p>\n<p>With camera and camper in tow, filmmaker Bonnie Hawthorne left her urban California comforts in the rearview mirror to learn from the Vetters\u2014and others in their Nebraska region\u2014about what\u2019s really going on in the Corn Belt. Her debut feature documentary shares the struggles the Vetters face as \u201cBig Ag\u201d encroaches. Informative yet entertaining, the film features the self-sustaining, self-renewing farm-management experiment Donald and David Vetter created back in the 1970s. As the Vetters try to stay one step ahead of changing weather patterns, market fluctuations, and the ever-increasing pesticide use around them, their experiment to regenerate soil through organic methods continues.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;2887&#8243; img_size=&#8221;large&#8221; add_caption=&#8221;yes&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;52px&#8221;][vc_text_separator title=&#8221;FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Why this film? Why now?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Modern American agriculture is a moving target in a shifting landscape. Really bad ideas continue to roll out in the name of giving farmers more \u201ctools in their toolkit.\u201d Got herbicide resistant weeds from using too much herbicide? Add more herbicide! Meanwhile, the Vetters\u2014who farm <em>with<\/em> nature rather than in an adversarial relationship to it\u2014have shown in their 40+ year experiment regenerating soil that we don\u2019t have to keep running on the pesticide treadmill. Theirs is a message that needs to be shared far and wide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Haven\u2019t there already been a lot of films made about food and agriculture?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Yes. Also, as of this writing, we are up to Sharknado 7. If the world can bear <em>seven<\/em> feature films about tornados that rain sharks, it can stand a few thousand documentaries on what is arguably the most important topic of our time. As one farmer put it, \u201cWithout food, you don\u2019t have much to hang human civilization on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>What are you bringing to the this crowded field that\u2019s different?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This film features smart, funny, warm, dedicated people doing what they know is right regardless of whether or not it makes them money. To quote Donald Vetter, \u201cI don\u2019t want to be a braggart and go to town and say I raised 300 bushel of corn on this acre at the expense of the land and of future generations. To me, that\u2019s wrong. And if you think it\u2019s wrong, you don\u2019t do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Who else is in the film?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Fred Kirschenmann, Terra Hall, Denise O\u2019Brien, Theresa Podoll, Edwin Dadey, Bill Whitney, Paul Huenefeld, Darci Vetter, Allison Vetter, Rojean Vetter, and others.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text] Dreaming of a Vetter World comes at a time when interest in farming regeneratively has exploded worldwide. Others are finally realizing what the Vetters have known for decades: eating food grown with pesticides is bad for us, and soil is key to our very survival. 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