Movie focuses on Illinois farmer known for selling produce in Evanston

Cameras watch the tending of the Congerville fields in ‘Seasons of Change on Henry’s Farm’

By Darel Jevens

Henry Brockman, an organic farmer who brings produce grown on his farm in downstate Congerville to the Evanston Farmers’ Market every week. “I’m not agribusiness,” Brockman says. “I’m just a farmer. And that kind of insulates me from a lot of the economic changes.” — Henry Brockman is the subject of “Seasons of Change on Henry’s Farm.”

A central Illinois farmer whose produce is a fixture of the Evanston Farmers Market is the subject of a documentary available Friday.

“Seasons of Change on Henry’s Farm” focuses on the 25-acre vegetable farm run by Henry Brockman in Congerville, Illinois. In the course of the film, Brockman takes a sabbatical with his wife in her native Japan, and in their absence the farm is disrupted by heavy rainfall.

“Seasons of Change” will be available for streaming at siskelfilmcenter.org. The 5 p.m. Sunday screening will include commentary by Brockman and the Chicago-based director, Ines Sommer.

Brockman’s sister, Terra, wrote a book about the family business, “The Seasons on Henry’s Farm,” that was a James Beard Award finalist in 2010.

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