Growing Food and Kids

Ok, so maybe we already knew this. But now Hollywood has noticed too: Farmers are the new sex symbols. Case in point: Alex O’Loughlin (pictured below) in The Back-up Plan (also starring Jennifer Lopez and now playing in theaters everywhere).

For years, Hollywood’s sexy leading men have been lawyers, cops, firemen, advertising men. Not farmers. But apparently, that’s changing. Even filmmakers have realized that people who make food from dirt are truly cool.

If you haven’t seen the movie, I promise I’m not ruining anything. But basically, Jennifer Lopez meets a guy at exactly the wrong time in her life. Not only is he charming and sexy, but he’s a goat farmer who makes his own goat cheese and sells it at farmers markets. (See, sexy isn’t it?)

One of the cutest scenes in the movie is when Lopez’s character drives out of the city to visit the goat farm. She’s seen the guy a few times in the city and likes him, but nothing has prepared her for the moment when she drives into the rolling green pastures and suddenly sees him, hot and shirtless, toiling on a noisy tractor. She drives right into the fence.

The movie is cute and funny, but I love that in a subtle way, it promotes local agriculture and gives a human face to today’s farmers. Go see the movie, and go hug your own farmer (or just buy something from him or her at your local farmer’s market). Who knows? Before long, your local single farmer may be the most sought-after man (or woman) in town!

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