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Food and Country

But when we hired 100and something young, educated, passionate peoplehere and paid them...

But when we hired 100
and something young, educated, passionate people
here and paid them well, they needed a place to eat and sleep
and shop and play

Full Transcript

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But when we hired 100 and something young,
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educated, passionate people here and paid them well,
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they needed a place
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to eat and sleep and shop and play.
Duration
18 seconds
Views
34
Timestamp in Movie
01:14:28
Uploaded
Apr 02, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Foothill Productions,Real Lava,Sustainable Films,Range Media Partners,The deNovo Initiative,Tiger Tales Media,Bewilder Films,Ideal Partners

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Movie Summary

Trailblazing food writer Ruth Reichl examines the precarious state of America's food system. A Sundance Film Festival premiere.
Now we've got 176 employees. - Food and Country 00:05
Now we've got 176 employees.
Our average employee makes way above the county average, - Food and Country 00:11
Our average employee makes way above the county average,
And what resulted is a really nice community. - Food and Country 00:06
And what resulted is a really nice community.
You know, it's still tiny, but it's gone from ghost town, - Food and Country 00:11
You know, it's still tiny, but it's gone from ghos...
[Ruth] So I hear you've been doing something with a solar power company now, too? - Food and Country 00:07
[Ruth] So I hear you've been doing something with a sol...
Some friends of mine owned a very large farm, near my farm, - Food and Country 00:11
Some friends of mine owned a very large farm, near my farm,
I was not very happy about that, - Food and Country 00:10
I was not very happy about that,
We populated that solar field with about 2,000 sheep for vegetative control. - Food and Country 00:09
We populated that solar field with about 2,000 sheep for veg...
And later on we added a few thousand chickens, a few hundred ducks. - Food and Country 00:07
And later on we added a few thousand chickens, a few hundred...
It has been a wonderful success. - Food and Country 00:06
It has been a wonderful success.
They actually pay us the same amount of money - Food and Country 00:14
They actually pay us the same amount of money
It's created new jobs and produces some really good lamb for our customers to eat. - Food and Country 00:08
It's created new jobs and produces some really good lam...
This was farmed-to-death row crop land. - Food and Country 00:07
This was farmed-to-death row crop land.
So that is Bermuda grass, - Food and Country 00:07
So that is Bermuda grass,
That's evidence that life's coming back to the land. - Food and Country 00:05
That's evidence that life's coming back to the lan...
[laughter] - Food and Country 00:09
[laughter]
They won't work with us, they haven't negotiated with us. - Food and Country 00:05
They won't work with us, they haven't negotiated w...
And then the third option is to fold both of our locations together, in the Mission. - Food and Country 00:07
And then the third option is to fold both of our locations t...
- We're doing it today, actually, having the big meeting, yeah. - Really? - Food and Country 00:06
- We're doing it today, actually, having the big...
[acousting guitar strumming] - Food and Country 00:19
[acousting guitar strumming]