Grange Fair director Scott Dengler appears in “The Perfect Sunday,” a six-episode limited TV series shot locally in Bucks County, including at the Grange Fair, last year. The producers will preview episode one during a special showing on Wednesday, August 12 at 5 p.m. on the porch of the Grange Fair Dining Hall. (Photo by Jeff Werner)
“Rupa and Sam are New York City transplants who want to ‘walk the walk’ of building a bridge between urban and rural America,” says Wade. “We so relate to them and to their incredible TV series, which artfully tells a story all-too-real to American farmers. This partnership felt organic and impactful from the beginning. Together, we feel we can make a real dent in the current epidemic of bankruptcies in modern agriculture.”
Perfect Sundays and Owowcow are allocating a portion of their “The Perfect Sunday” profits to help support local farmers. And as a result of their unique partnership, Carpigiani, the world’s most reputable ice cream equipment manufacturer, also came aboard to provide business and ice cream-making expertise to farmers wanting to start their own frozen dessert businesses.
At a time of evident desperation for family farms nationwide, this bold partnership provides a specific, achievable path towards farms not only surviving but thriving in today’s challenging agricultural economy.
Farms that diversify beyond wholesale milk sales have a much better chance of passing the operation, and its beloved land, down to the next generation. That theme is at the heart of the TV series, and the team behind the story and its ice cream partners are determined to make it happen.