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I am your typical housewife living in high maintenance suburbia. I have a handsome husband, 2 kids and a flock of pet chickens. I try and feed my family with $100 a month. With the help of coupons, gardening and bartering I am able to squeeze the most out of our grocery budget and still manage to have a little fun along the way.

Friday Night at the Movies – Growing Farmers

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Growing Farmers (Complete film 2012) from Peconic Land Trust Film on Vimeo.

Tonight The Girl and I will be watching a short film called Growing Farmers.  It’s about the Peconic Land Trust, an organization founded in the 1980’s to help New England farmers, whose families have owned the land for many, many generations.

Basically, it highlights the high cost of farming with growing technology, the high cost of inheritance taxes for multi-generational farming, and the near impossibility of starting farms if you don’t already have the land.  The Peconic Land Trust tries to counter all of these obstacles by helping local farmers continue and start farming.  Go Peconic Land Trust!

The entire short film is available for FREE.  Yippee!

Let me know what you think if you decide to watch it–or if you have already seen it.  Did you love it? Hate it? Can’t wait to watch it over and over?

Looking for more movies?

Check out the full list of my Friday Night at the Movies Selections or click on over & look at all the movies on Amazon Instant Video. There are a ton of videos to choose from that will cost you absolutely nothing {nada, zilch, free-o} with Amazon Prime; like thousands of regular movies & TV shows & hundreds of documentaries {Wahoo!}. Get all the details HERE!

Peace out Girl Scouts & have yourself a great weekend,

~Mavis

 

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Friday Night at the Movies – The Real Dirt on Farmer John

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Tonight The Girl and I are watching The Real Dirt on Farmer John.  It’s a PBS documentary about a man, who after years of struggle {it appears both internal and external}, is able to rally and evolve from traditional farming into a thriving Organic CSA Food Co-Op farmer {sheesh, that’s a mouthful}.  Farmer John is described as quirky and unique–hmm, I don’t know where I’ve heard that before?  Ha!

The film, although, a little bit older, got great reviews, and apparently, Farmer John has gone on to write a cookbook, The Real Dirt on Vegetables, which is also getting great reviews on Amazon.

the real dirt on farmer john

Amazon Prime Members can watch The Real Dirt on Farmer John for $2.99.

Let me know what you think if you decide to watch it–or if you have already seen it.  Did you love it? Hate it? Can’t wait to watch it over and over?

Looking for more movies?

Check out the full list of my Friday Night at the Movies Selections or click on over & look at all the movies on Amazon Instant Video. There are a ton of videos to choose from that will cost you absolutely nothing {nada, zilch, free-o} with Amazon Prime; like thousands of regular movies & TV shows & hundreds of documentaries {Wahoo!}. Get all the details HERE!

Peace out Girl Scouts & have yourself a great weekend,

~Mavis

 

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Friday Night at the Movies – Queen of the Sun

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Tonight the Girl and I are going to feed my new bee fascination with the documentary, Queen of the Sun.  The movie goes into detail about the collapsing bee colonies due to mono-culture growing practices and chemical pesticides.  It also discusses the impact on the whole ecosystem, should the bee population continue to decline.

If this doesn’t motivate me to get into the bee keeping game, I don’t know what will.  Besides, I immediately loved the man who tickles the bees with his mustache, so at the very least, I’ll get to watch more of him.

queen of the sun

So, have you seen it?  Will it change the way I look at bees?

Amazon Instant Video has Queen of the Sun available for $3.99 HERE, and Netflix has it for FREE right now.

Let me know what you think if you decide to watch it–or if you have already seen it.  Did you love it? Hate it? Can’t wait to watch it over and over?

Looking for more movies?

Check out the full list of my Friday Night at the Movies Selections or click on over & look at all the movies on Amazon Instant Video. There are a ton of videos to choose from that will cost you absolutely nothing {nada, zilch, free-o} with Amazon Prime; like thousands of regular movies & TV shows & hundreds of documentaries {Wahoo!}. Get all the details HERE!

Peace out Girl Scouts & have yourself a great weekend,

~Mavis

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Friday Night at the Movies – The Garden

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Whoa, am I glad it’s Friday!  Tonight the Girl and I will be watching The Garden.  It’s a film from 2008 {how have I not heard of this before now?} that chronicles the power struggle between low-income families and land developers over a community garden in South Central Los Angeles. When I watched the preview, I was reminded a little of the Front Yard Garden post from a couple of weeks ago.  It should be an intense watch.

 

the garden movie

I’m not sure if Netflix has The Garden available {someone please let us know in the comments below} but The Garden is available on Amazon Instant Video.

Let me know what you think if you decide to watch it–or if you have already seen it.  Did you love it? Hate it? Can’t wait to watch it over and over?

Looking for more movies?

Check out the full list of my Friday Night at the Movies Selections or click on over & look at all the movies on Amazon Instant Video. There are a ton of videos to choose from that will cost you absolutely nothing {nada, zilch, free-o} with Amazon Prime; like thousands of regular movies & TV shows & hundreds of documentaries {Wahoo!}. Get all the details HERE!

Peace out Girl Scouts & have yourself a great weekend,

~Mavis

 

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