{"id":400,"date":"2013-01-22T21:21:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T21:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/176.32.230.6\/ruralmuseums.org.uk\/?p=400"},"modified":"2014-10-10T14:55:24","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T13:55:24","slug":"farmers-on-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/?p=400","title":{"rendered":"Farmers on Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The farming community has long been a rich subject for photographers seeking to record rural life without nostalgia or sentimentality, and in recent years the subject has also received attention by documentary film makers such as Testimony Films.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>The contemporary scene is no exception.\u00a0 Andy Heathcote and Heike Bachelier have worked with dairy farmer Steve Hook\u00a0and his father to chronicle their endeavours to produce and sell organic\u00a0unpasturised milk and cheese at Longleys Farm at Hailsham, East Sussex.\u00a0 Their 90 minute film &#8216;Moo Man&#8217; has just premiered at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival in Utah:<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><a title=\"blocked::http:\/\/www.the-mooman.co.uk\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.the-mooman.co.uk\/\">http:\/\/www.the-mooman.co.uk\/<\/a><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Currently broadcast on Channel\u00a04, Monkey Kingdom Films&#8217; five part series &#8216;First Time Farmers&#8217;\u00a0looks at the trials and tribulations of Britain&#8217;s youngest farmers, including Somerset&#8217;s Flossie\u00a0Biss who combines sheep farming with\u00a0her GCSE exams:<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<a title=\"blocked::http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/programmes\/first-time-farmers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/programmes\/first-time-farmers\">http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/programmes\/first-time-farmers<\/a><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The farming community has long been a rich subject for photographers seeking to record rural life without nostalgia or sentimentality, and in recent years the subject has also received attention by documentary film makers such as Testimony Films. \u00a0 The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/?p=400\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}