Blue Acres

Frank Corrado
  • 5.0 (2)
  • COMEDY

Boy loves farming. Girl is a farm escapee. Jake and Twinkle mix it up as he leaves the big city to grow blueberries in the Michigan Fruit Belt. Join them on their journey to the land where nuts grow fruits. Based on a true story, Blue Acres gives a humorous inside look at the making of a farmer.

  1. 02/23/2022

    Beginnings

    Episode 1 – Beginnings  It’s the early 2000’s and thirty year old Jake is itchy to get out of his city boy poser lifestyle and “do something with his life”.  At an afterwork bar he meets Twinkle a bartender who's escaped from a Michigan dairy farm for big city life. On a lark, she agrees to go with Jake to his parent’s Michigan cabin where they exchange life stories over a campfire.

    12 min

  2. 02/23/2022

    A Farm of His Own

    Episode 2 – A Farm of His Own   Jake and his dad, Mike, are at the family cabin in Fruitville, disussing local customs – like shooting into the air randomly and why some many locals have first names that start with the letter “L.”  Mike sees an ad in the local newspaper for a couple of small blueberry farms. He and Jake walk the field with the owner, Mr. Wiley, who is delighted that a young person might go into farming.  An offer is made and Jake is now a farmer in training. When his buddy Andy comes up to help, all their vehicles get stuck in the mud until the new next door neighbor digs them out with his big John Deere tractor.  They end up at the local tavern and meet a sassy bartender named Honey.

    14 min

  3. 02/23/2022

    Growing Concerns

    Episode 3 – Growing Concerns  Almost from the start of his new career as “farmer” , Jake finds himself being tugged as by bad weather, hard chores and all kinds of paperwork and meetings. At a local blueberry meeting, he’s laughed at for wanting to grow “organic” berries, but is taken under the wing of a sympathetic  county agent.

    8 min

  4. 02/23/2022

    Haircut

    Episode 4 – Haircut  With Twinkle coming up for a visit soon, Jake is not impressed at what he sees in the mirror. Time for a trim and encounter with Fruitville society at the local barbershop, where the local gossip is a bit too much for him, as is the Amish looking haircut he ends up with. Twinkle learns of Jake’s fixation on one-syllable names as they snuggle in his newly acquired smelly trailer.

    7 min

  5. 02/22/2022

    The Market

    Episode 5 - The Market Jake’s starting to worry about how his new farm is going to make money. ;He’s already into his parents for a bunch of money and needs so marketing help. His mom Anne’s the go to for help and she’s quick to see that blueberries come in many forms – jams, raisins, and the like.  His new confidence doesn’t last long as he encounters a prickly manager at a Chicago farmers market who says she already has a blueberry seller and steers him towards applying to an Inclusion Festivalthat is anything but. Taking a break to lick his wounds at the family cabin, Jake encounters a surrealistic outdoor show on local TV.

    11 min

  6. 02/22/2022

    Bee Careful

    Episode 6 – Bee Careful Jake has become a “go to” attraction for friends and family. First there is his auto mechanic friend Andy who found some bee hives at an Uncle’s place in Indiana and has brought some up to Blue Acres to help with spring pollination. Jake is afraid of the little stingers but knows he needs them.  Next to appear is Peter, Jake’s brother with his wife Iris, all the way from California. Peter, an expert in offering advice and hoarding his money, starts right in on how the farm could be better managed. Iris has no intention of getting out of the truck and walking the farm. Jake reflects on happier times when he and Peter were kids.

    9 min

  7. 02/22/2022

    The Intern

    Episode 7 – The Intern Fast forward to June. The work load is ramping up, Jake is getting really grumpy. Twinkle demurs on adding to her workload and suggests he look  for an intern. While they are discussing this in their beat up lawn chairs over some alcoholic kombucha, a hippy-looking Johnny Appleseed type named Delbert shows up looking for a place to stay overnight as he bicycles cross county. His long term plan is find a plot out west to grow weed.  The  three hit it off over a campfire stew dinner. Jake feels he’s found his intern, but Twinkle makes him test the market while Delbert is off visiting his sister nearby. Compared to the others, Delbert looks like a standout.

    8 min

  8. 02/22/2022

    Hooping It up

    Episode 8 – Hooping it Up Thanks to a grant, Blue Acres now has a giant new hoop tunnel. Jake enlists father, intern and family friend Kevin to do the erecting. Father Mike insists on standing in the high tractor bucket to do the bolting and Jake expresses concern, Mike alleges age discrimination is at work. Afterward, at the local tavern, Kevin remarks on bartender Honey’s fine looks as he has noted on a men’s room calendar. She says it was for a fundraiser and that she was also featured for a few other months due to too many husbands’ objections to their wives participation. Asked why he seems a bit mute, Mike complains that old folks can never say anything about sex without getting into trouble.

    8 min
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Boy loves farming. Girl is a farm escapee. Jake and Twinkle mix it up as he leaves the big city to grow blueberries in the Michigan Fruit Belt. Join them on their journey to the land where nuts grow fruits. Based on a true story, Blue Acres gives a humorous inside look at the making of a farmer.

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  • Creator
    Frank Corrado
  • Episodes
    13
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2022 Blue Acres
  • Show Website
    Blue Acres