Farm Film Feast, and a great big sign.

This weekend was pretty jam packed. I got to travel to western Massachusetts to the Farm Film Feast hosted in Williamstown MA. A multi day film festival with author signings, talks, and gatherings it turned out to be a pretty good time. My favorite movie was called Dirt. A film about how the origins of humans, our spirituality, our world conflicts, and our very beings are the essence and the stuff of dirt. It is also where the most healing needs to happen, and our largest shift in consciousness needs to take place. A great documentary, I'd highly recommend it, it has great imagery, a lot of interviews with farmers, artists, and people who are advocates for the health of our soil. They used the book Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth by William Bryant Logan (which I read a few years ago) for the concept for the movie. Watch the trailer below

After the last movie we walked around for a while, ate grilled cheese and gilato's in the Williams College student center, found the local watering hole and met a few very nice folks there, saw the last bit of the NCAA division 3 basketball game that was taking place next door, and got a tour of the area by a lovely student taking time out of her night to walk through the slush and snow to show us where we needed to go!

To cap off the evening we went to a panel discussion on farming, with two local farmers and also Severine von Tscharner Fleming who is doing a movie called Greenhorn all about young farmers, she is also one herself, and is also the director of the Greenhorns project which is a land based non profit for young farmers. Check out the website, a blog, radio show, resources for young farmers, merchandise, maps, events, an overwhelming a cool site!

We drove home in what we found out would be categorized as a hurricane, up in the mountains it was snowing and lightning at the same time, a regular two and a half hour drive turned into over four, you get the picture. The overall feel of this weekend felt very inspiring and I can't wait to get started on new projects, spring coming, new business ideas, and making some of my dreams a reality.