Category: Photography
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How to Move Large Animals
Yesterday it was Sunday (well we all know that already ) and it was Hugo’s day off (and he was lying on the couch with a “cold in his face” – later he got up off the couch and made more of Pats banana pudding as medicine) and John was chain-sawing dried tree trunks from…
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Between Relationships
I think my best and most thoughtful work on the farm is in achieving a daily balance of health and contentment between all the souls who live on and orbit around the farmy. Keeping the motion swinging. Allowing all the souls their space while keeping them safe. But allowing them the freedom to grow. Developing…
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Are you the farmer?
We started very early yesterday morning. Hugo, our friend Bryce towing the trailer with his truck, me and Daisy’s Bobby on his final trip. I always say thank you to an animal when I raise it for food, even the chickens get a thank you as they are carefully packed for their journey. We said…
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Stormy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Yesterday the first of the autumnal storms roared across the farm. These storms are very slim bands of weather. Hitting one farm and not the other. Wreaking havoc here and calm over there. Hugo laughed crazily and ran out into the storm. Josh had been recording the sounds of the storm in the corn (he…
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Time for Feet
As we wended our weary way home from Chicago on the Metra yesterday evening, I watched a lot of honest hard working people trudge wearily on their feet, up and into the train, they would sit heavily, some of them looked to me to be way past the age that they should be working. They…
The Kitchen's Garden 