Independent producer Annabel Seymour, from BreakThru Films (The Devil Came on Horseback, The Trials of Darryl Hunt), is casting for a GrowFood documentary series. She'd like to cast a few folks who travel from farm to farm—people with diverse stories and perspectives to show a well-rounded view of the nomadic organic farming experience. If you are interested, please email Annabel at Annabel@breakthrufilms.org.

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Sarita and I spent the weekend on Orcas Island, Washington, at a reunion of farm interns from the Bullock Permaculture Homestead. Some 40 interns from the past 15 years returned to the homestead to share what we've learned and what we've done. This was the first time I've really grasped the impact that one farm can make with an internship program. More than 150 interns have trained with the Bullock family.  All 40 who returned were implementing permaculture principals in their lives.

Last week, I attended the Slow Money National Gathering, here in Santa Fe. Slow money, founded by venture capitalist Woody Tasch, attempts to make investing simpler and more healthy by urging people to invest in companies and ventures they can literally see grow. The ethic is to make growth real, like crop growth, rather than abstract, like those investment statements that show up in the mail every month and go right into the trash.

This is Severine Fleming, filmmaker, organizer, and provocateur. When she's not mugging for the Times Magazine, she's flitting about the country speaking on behalf of upstart farmers everywhere. She maintains her own spread in upstate New York.

The online news site Common Dreams published my essay on the Greenhorns, here. The film trailer is here.