Peter and the Farm

Mile Hill Farm sits on 187 tranquil acres in Vermont. Through Dunning, the proud proprietor, the land’s 37 harvests have seen the arrivals and departures of three wives and four children, leaving him with only animals and memories. The arrival of a film crew causes him to confront his history and his legacy, passing along hard-won agricultural wisdom even as he doubts the meaning of the work he is fated to perform. At once a postcard from paradise and a cautionary tale for our times, PETER AND THE FARM offers a window into the bucolic but difficult world of organic farming, and at the same time sifts through the potential energy of a human life—that which is used and that which is squandered.