No. 104
John Peterson Dishes The Real Dirt
On Farmer John
The Banter
The Guys talk about premium products and how much is too much to pay. From wild salmon to select chocolate, everyone has their spending limit…and The Guys wish theirs was a little higher.
The Conversation
The Restaurant Guys meet Farmer John Peterson to hear about the documentary The Real Dirt on Farmer John. John shares his story of suffering financial and emotional hardship to creating Angel Organics, one of the largest Community Supported Agriculture farms in the US.
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Farmer John Peterson
John Peterson was raised on his family’s farm in Illinois. At an early age, John helped with the poultry chores. By his ninth birthday, he had been promoted to the dairy, where, morning and night, he helped with milking and feeding the cows.
The financial calamity for the farming community hit the Peterson farm in the 1980s, nearly closing the farm for good. John decided to rebuild using sustainable farming practices rather than the modern chemical-reliant approach. In 1991, Angel Organics was born. They opted for a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) model, which continues to this day.
THE INSIDE TRACK
The Guys were eager to talk to John after seeing the documentary. John equates modern farms turning organic to people finding sobriety.
“When it's going from a chemical-based system to a natural system, it has to be repopulated by the microorganisms. Maybe it's a little like someone going into an addiction clinic and then going from a dependent life to a healthy life. We were raising very unhealthy crops that the insects were invading. It took a long time to figure out how to build things up and how to get the soil healthy,” Farmer John Peterson on The Restaurant Guys 2006
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