Farmers for America Complete Credits
This film is dedicated to America’s farmers.
Thanks for growing the food that keeps us all going.
Thanks to America’s military veterans.
Let’s create America’s next agriculture together
Join the National Young Farmers Coalition
Join the Farmer Veteran Coalition
Join the National Farmers Union
Need help farming?
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A very special thanks
for the love, patience and
support of my family:
Susan Yao
Abraham & Maya Lou
Patricia & Heath Meriwether
Michelle Huang & Harry Yao
Elizabeth Meriwether & Alex Cuthbertson & Harriet
Davis & Tiffany
The Froehlichs
The Hulens
A very special thanks
to the farms and farm families
who shared their stories
and homes with us:
(In Order of Appearance)
The Wirtz Family
The Sibbel Family
The Hurst Family
The Groth Family
The Grider Family
The Sheard Family
The Hubert and Willerer Family
The Grieve Family
Amanda Brown
UMASS Student Farm
Evergreen State College Sustainable Agriculture Lab
David Muehleisen
Sophie Ackoff and Andrew Pezzullo
The Lusher-Shute Family
The Salatin Family
Miriam Gust
The Houssney Family
The Carlisle Family
The Keener Family
The Brown Family
The Riggleman Family
The Coleman and Damrosch Family
Carly Gillespie and Coleman Riedesel
The Decker Family
The Georgia Family
The Mardesen Family
The Willenbring Family
The Lewis Family
Chris Brown- Growing Veterans
George Siemon
The Zweber Family
Narrator: Mike Rowe
Director: Graham Meriwether
Producer: Graham Meriwether, Tanmaya Shekhar, Theresa Loong
Cinematography:
Graham Meriwether, Kyle Kelley
Andy Trimbach, Ryan Nethery
Editor:
Graham Meriwether, Maarit Nissila
Joe Palmer, Zach Timm
Writer:
Graham Meriwether,
Tanmaya Shekhar, Maarit Nissila,
Joe Palmer, Suzanne Milton, Zach Timm
Original Music by:
Alison Plante
Chanmi Seo
Joseph Cilento
Gabriel Majou
Supervising Composer:
Alison Plante
Animations & Graphics
Sergio Peçanha
Consulting Producer: Tom Jennings, Memo Salazar
A very special thanks to
Bill Witherspoon
Chris Ely
Paul Willis
Bob Walls
Michael O’Gorman
Sophie Ackoff
Andrew Jerome
Jade Estrada
Sheri Salatin
Andy Pressman
Nancy Southgate
Wendell Berry
Michael Pollan
Mike Rowe
Abraham Lincoln
Walt Whitman
Stephen Covey
Henry David Thoreau
Fred Kirschenmann
Neil Hamilton
SRI
The Sky Factory
The Filmshop Community
Matt Rivera
Our Leave It Better Community
Additional Credits:
Post Production Sound Mixer: Graham Meriwether, John Escobar
Post Production Sound Coordinator: Michael Bierylo
Music Editor: Zach Timm
Special Advisor- Neil Hamilton, Mary Hendrickson
Co-Writers: Susan Yao, Patricia Hughes Meriwether, Heath Meriwether
Music
Score Coordinator:
Christina Azarian
Additional Orchestration:
Vincent Isler
Orchestra:
Violins:
Katharina Giegling (concertmaster)
Eric Mrugala
Subaiou Zhang
Farley Masterton
Allison Dobbs
Sean Larkin
Taylor Baldwin
Nicole Parks
Fariba Hunold
Viola: Foxman James
Cello: Marta Roma
Trumpet: Jeremy Alvarez
Harmonica: Thorleif Davidsson
Flute: Ona Jonaityte
Piano: Victoria Ruggiero
Soprano Soloist: Caroline Vermillion
Nylon Guitar: Karl Marino
Steel String Guitar: Joseph Cilento
Electric Guitar: Bobby Stanton
Choir:
Soprano 1:
Lily Vásquez
Jennifer Lynn MacDonald
Honey Goodenough
Soprano 2:
Susan Dubin
Alison Plante
Alto:
Marisol Echegoyen
Flora Son
Vidra F. Harris
Recording Engineers:
John Escobar
Fred Mueller
Music Mix Engineer:
John Escobar
Additional Editing: Tanmaya Shekhar, Suzanne Milton
Scratch Narration: Shelly Shenoy
Media Management: Tim Schwab
Assistant Editors:
Ashley Edgar, Tanmaya Shekhar,
Suzanne Milton, Tim Schwab
Lee Chin, Reed Surdovel,
Laura Ilyinsky, Xiao Huang,
Sean FitzHoward, Yuki Wang, Fisher Simmons,
Kelsey Hillerud, Natassja Westover, Andrew Wong
Research: Margot Young
Additional Camera:
Keith Clark, Hunter Curry,
Lanny Helton, Rich Reilly, Rich Tomlin
Additional Sound: Rich Reilly
Additional Graphics: Dan Shaw
Additional Post Production Sound Editing: Johannes Burger
Additional Music Recording and Editing: Fred Mueller
Associate Producer: Maxwell Lloyd
Outreach Coordinators: Amanda Lily Appelson, Ilana Berger, Charles Harary, Zach Timm, Natalie McCauley
Grant Writer: Jane Breakell
VO Recordist: Joaby Deal
Scratch VO Recordist: Eric Brown
Line Producer: Blake Ashman-Kipervaser
A very special thanks
to all the other farmers,
individuals, and farm families
who shared their stories and homes with us:
Matthew Aamot of Growing Veterans
Leah Bayens
Mary Berry
Chris Brown- ALBA
Stephanie Brown
California Farm Academy
The Cisneros Family
The Cortez Family
The Dobson Family
Rachel Emus
The Eschmeyer Family
Tony Flint
Shelby Floyd
Anita Fisher
Cody Gibbons
The Glosson Family
The Green Family
Rebecca Gretebeck
The Gruis Family
Heather Judah
Ladyberry Produce
Shawn Lucas
The Mesko Family
The Myer Family
The Nelson Family
Patchwork Farms
The Powers Family
Kristina Ralph
Faith Reeves
Sally Rick
St. Catharine’s
Annie Salafsky
Sash Sunday
Susan Ujcic
The Vergin Family
Tommy Yang
Chef Don Warfe
The Wederberg Family
The Willis Family
Very Special Thanks
to the participants in the
Young American Farmers series
Patrick Diedrich
Jude Becker
James Frantzen
Daren Miller
Justin Wade
Hayden Hedge
Mitchell Meinke
Adair Crowe
Todd Geisert
Luke Conyac
Stacey Engel
Dustin Richardson
Katie Lisle
Montana Stovall
Stephen Cochenour
Tyler Palmer
Kris Karl
Denise Beyers
Mark Penner
Jarod Ellis
Laverne Long
Chris Ishler
Faith Reeves
Phil Kramer
Yemi Amu
Special Thanks
Mary Kimball
Center for Land Based Learning
Charles Lavoie
Nicole Rogers
Diego Footer
Phil Howard
Craig Cornwell
Paul Smith
John Stone
Chris Brandt
Stephanie Perdue
Glenda Ervin
Maria Balice
Brian Niccol
Tim Wildin
Scott Champion
Jaclyn Cardin
Mark Crumpacker
Gina Asoudegan
Chris Arnold
Steve Ells
Jessica Harrison
Jade Estrada
Bonnie Powell
Drew Calvert
Keely Wachs
Matthew Dillon
Jeana Hultquist
Wayne Prichard
Hannah Packman
Andy Pressman
John Mesko
Central Minnesota Young Farmers Coalition
Jill Isenbarger
Matt Eddy
Lisa Stokke
Dave Murphy
Josh Granger
Slow Tools
The Nordin Family
Jonny Alpert
Chuck Kanten
Zack Wilson
Joan Jubela
Daniel Marcus
archive.org
The American Lutheran Church
Paper Tiger Television
The Boston Film and Video Foundation
Angee Simmons
Bob Petts
Kristin Fellows
Deep Dish TV
Chipotle
Applegate
Niman Ranch
Lehman’s
BAMCo
CLIF Bar
American AgCredit
The Lillian Goldman Charitable Trust
Organic Valley
Anne O’Connor
Hans Eisenbeis
Berklee College of Music
FFA Agricultural Educators
This Land is Our Land
Taggart Siegel
Steven Jandecek
Missouri State Legislature
United States Post Office
Center for Land-based Learning
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