AMERICAN HEMP FARMER Premiering on PBS

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Doug Fine’s Award-Winning Debut Feature Documentary AMERICAN HEMP FARMER Available Nationwide This Weekend on PBS

American Hemp F armer Premiering on PBS This Saturday

I’m delighted to report that you can watch my regenerative living documentary AMERICAN HEMP FARMER nationwide on PBS beginning the day after tomorrow: Saturday, March 14.

I’m writing this not long after cradling an almost illegally-adorable six-day-old goat, so it’s hard to separate the sources of excitement and optimism. But I’d be so glad if you’d watch and tell you friends about the film.

There are lots of easy viewing options for AMERICAN HEMP FARMER: You can watch the film at PBS.org for free and on the PBS passport streaming app (both of these options are anytime, anywhere: their “Watch Now” buttons appear starting Saturday).

If you like turning on televisions and watching scheduled programs, please check your favorite public television station for air times throughout 2026. I’m glad to report that the film, which to my surprise and delight won several film festival circuit awards, is already scheduled for airing on more than a dozen stations in every continental U.S. time zone, and more stations are picking up the film by the day. I’ll post a schedule of nationwide March and April airings in the next Dispatch from the Funky Butte Ranch.

For now, a big thank you to you to KRWG and KENW in New Mexico, KVCR in Los Angeles, Connecticut Public Television, WOSU in Columbus, Ohio, KTNW in Richmond, WA, Vermont Public Television,WPNE (Green Bay), WHAD (Madison) and WHLA (La Crosse).

The AMERICAN HEMP FARMER film is based on my book of the same name and is a five-year labor of love. We shot it in hemp fields from Oregon to Rosebud Sioux land, from New Mexico to Mount Vernon to Vermont. There are also some Colorado and Hawaii scenes in there.

The idea of the film is to humorously show that if I and my family can take baby steps toward food security and regenerative living, so can you and your family.

The film is also focused on the entrepreneurial potential of regenerative farming: You’ll see three families working on food security, extreme climate event mitigation and having fun along the way even in the face of devastating wildfire, over-regulation of hemp and mischievous goats.

That a series of “Millennial” wildfires sparking a bear attack on our family goats also went down is part of the story, I guess. As is our own nine-day fire evacuation just this past summer, while in post-production for the film. Yawn. I do these kinds of smoky-lunged evacuations in my sleep these days: I dropped off goats at distant ranches, and attended post-production meetings from remote campsites while sitting on boxes of my family’s treasured photos and property deeds. We were never out of kombucha.

As you might guess, AMERICAN HEMP FARMER is an optimistic film. I’m telling these stories because the well-being of your family and mine might depend on it. Recovery happens, is my takeaway from a dozen years of professional soil-building, and we’re having so much fun along the way.

Thanks for watching and sharing. Please stay tuned for more updates and clips here in the Dispatches From The Funky Butte Ranch. I also post on Instagram: @Organiccowboy

If you schedule a watch party any time starting this weekend, please post on any of your platforms and networks of choice with the tag #AmericanHempFarmerFilm

And if a friend is forwarding you this Dispatch, I’d be glad if you’d also subscribe (it’s free) at DougFine.com (which is the same site as AmericanHempFarmer.com).

At AmericanHempFarmer.com and DougFine.com. you can see a rotation of clips and trailers. There you can also find my books and ebooks, and book me to speak at your organization’s event.

Now that I’m a PBS director, I am always thinking about underwriting current and next projects. So I’ll mention that also starting March 14, if you’d really like to support my work, you’ll also be able to pay a suggested sliding ticket fee to stream the film yourself from the film link at AmericanHempFarmer.com.

And just one more thanks in closing for watching the AMERICAN HEMP FARMER film. For our own watch party here on the ranch, we’re inviting pollinators. You’ll see lots of them in the film. Bees love hemp flowers.

-Doug Fine

Author and Director, AMERICAN HEMP FARMER

Funky Butte Ranch, New Mexico.

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AMERICAN HEMP FARMER Premiering on PBS