its been challenging this summer to schedule time to visit local farms. it seems that every time i try to set aside a day, there is a conflict for the farm, or more often than not, things have gotten flipped upside down on my end. since last fall i have had it in the back read more
the blog posts have been fewer and further between over the past few months. that doesn’t mean that i’m not still out there talking to farmers, buying their products, and photographing them. admittedly i have not been to a farm since i visited bron’s bees back in early may but i have been working on read more
this post is not about a local farm. but it is about a local food tradition. the other weekend my sister jocelyn came to visit from omaha and brought with her a small mesh bag filled with morel mushrooms. a few days before she made the 8 hour trip east, she was invited to join read more
this whole local food project spawned from my desire to photograph bee hives. until this past week i had never been at an apiary, let alone anywhere close to a single bee hive, so where the initial desire came from i’m not sure. nevertheless, that want snowballed into the larger concept of exploring my local read more