Farmer Oliver Jensen Works His Rock Farm
In 1929, Winterbottom County was a successful farming community, until Mike convinced the town council that growing crops was, “…a dead-end occupation of the past” and that the real money was to be made in the growing and harvesting of organic rocks (as shown above). With Mike’s Bible-sworn guarantee, the council then spent $27,000 on enough of Mike’s “rock seeds” to support every one of the county’s 205 farms.
Three months later, the bank foreclosed on 147 of those farms.
