Category Archives: young farmers
Intro to Documentary Studies
For the last nine Saturdays I have attended my second class at the Center for Documentary Studies here in Durham. The class is one of only two required courses in the certificate program. It is titled, appropriately, Introductory Seminar in … Continue reading
46 hours
Less than two days to go before my Kickstarter project comes to an end. The prints are ordered and ready for pickup this Friday. Tonight I start on the program… Goals were set, reached, reset and reached again. The whole … Continue reading
Counting down
I am still moving through photographs for the show, trying to figure out sizing. It looks like there will be six at 24×30. I thought it might be eight, but finding two more has been a challenge. In the 16×24 … Continue reading
Kickstarter update
The New Blood for the Old Body Kickstarter campaign is amazingly successful, so much so that there is now a second goal. I posted the following updates on the the Kickstarter page – Update #1 – Response to this project … Continue reading
The letting go – Crop Mob in the Wild
The original message of crop mobs has changed as the idea became a “thing” on its own. The idea changes a bit in each new area, and, for better or worse, adds new pieces to the developing visage of a … Continue reading
Crop Mob: A lesson in theory
innovation n 1 : the introduction of something new 2 : a new method, idea or device Crop Mob is simply an innovation in farm work and organizing. Taking the old idea of community labor, a small group of farm … Continue reading
It takes a village – part three
A few weeks ago I traveled to Tivoli, New York to photograph and participate in a hog butchering workshop presented by The Greenhorns. The workshop was presided over by Bryan Mayer, a butcher with The Greene Grape in Brooklyn New … Continue reading
It takes a village – part one
Last week I traveled to Tivoli, New York to photograph and participate in a hog butchering workshop presented by The Greenhorns. The workshop was presided over by Bryan Mayer, a butcher with The Greene Grape in Brooklyn New York. Day … Continue reading
New blood for the old body
Many of us never meant to become farmers. We had our ambitions to enter the world as accountants or lawyers or teachers or some other clean, respectable professional. We never really thought about the origins of our food; we always … Continue reading