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American Hemp Farmer
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The Film with a Climate Game Plan For All.
After a wildfire nearly turns his family (and goats) into refugees on their remote New Mexico ranch, former suburbanite Doug Fine and two other families set out to discover food security and wildfire mitigation around the world via hemp and other crops. AMERICAN HEMP FARMER: The film with a climate game plan for all.
Not every film director might get eaten on the way to work. But Doug Fine loves living adjacent to wilderness, and the sometimes-unnerving predator-prey balance he encounters in the day to day. But the AMERICAN HEMP FARMER film had to get made. In Doug’s words, "It was when my family joined the world's 25 million climate refugees during post-production for the film that I knew I couldn’t rest until its optimistic messaging got out to the world. We were only evacuated for nine days, and we were never out of kombucha, but we did have to relocate goats, chickens and birth certificates.The resulting regenerative living film, AMERICAN HEMP FARMER, is a five-year-labor of love. I’m telling these stories because the well-being of your family and mine might depend on it. But up there in the film’s themes is the importance of having fun along the way."
