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Broken Limbs
Wenatchee, Washington, "Apple Capital
of the World." This pastoral Valley in the heart of the Pacific
Northwest prospered for nearly a century as home to the famed
Washington apple. But the good times have vanished. Apple
orchardists by the thousands are going out of business and thousands
more await the dreaded letter from the bank announcing the end of
their livelihoods and a uniquely American way of life.
After his own father receives just such a letter, filmmaker Guy
Evans sets out on a journey of discovery to try to find out what
went wrong here in this natural garden of Eden. Along the way he
witnesses small farmers forced off their land as they struggle to
compete against the Goliaths that populate today’s global economy.
The future looks grim for the Apple Capital until Evans happens upon
an entirely new breed of farmer, practitioners of a new model for
farming called sustainable agriculture. They have come to be known
as the New American Farmers and they are finding success by going
against the grain of conventional agriculture. The ideas that Evans
uncovers define a path of renewal that could save not only his
father, but farmers across America.
BROKEN LIMBS explores these hopeful stirrings
within agriculture, and outlines ways in which any individual can
play a role in saving America’s farmers. Told from a hometown
perspective, the film presents the stories of farmers attempting to
create this new model for agriculture and emerging, more sustainable
solutions to the crises of recent years – solutions applicable not
just to apples and not just to farming, but to nearly any sector of
the American economy troubled by the effects of consolidation and
globalization.
View the trailer
here.
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Visit the Broken
Limbs website.
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