Asparagus! A Stalk-umentary
With Q&A featuring filmmaker(bios)
This is the story of what happens when an obscure U.S. War on Drugs policy threatens to destroy the Asparagus Capital of the World. After 30 years of growing “Green Gold,” crowning a Mrs. Asparagus Queen and writing Super Stalk comic book heroes, the people of Oceana County Michigan are thrown smack-dab into the middle of the global economy. Watch as Ocean’s farmers take their fight from Senate Trade Hearings to marketing think-tanks, from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to the mountains of Peru. See how one rural American community is scrambling to keep its proud identity and source of survival against impossible odds. Directed and produced Kirsten Kelly and Anne de Mare.
dirs. Anne de Mare, Kristen Kelly, 53m
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