shoot dates: monday september 10th & monday september 17th location: volkening heritage farm, schaumburg, il crew: kim hartman, paula walters, christina zerkis, breana moeller, alex janowski, sandy rosencrans * without this amazing crew and the help of our friends at volkening – evan zimmerman, monique inglot, and patty kennedy – none of these images would read more
this past weekend i returned to volkening heritage farm to enjoy the annual ‘from hog house to smokehouse’, an event celebrating the daily life of farmers from a bygone era, a chance to witness local before it became a movement. like last year, to maintain the authenticity, a heritage breed hog was provided by hasselmann read more
it has taken a few months but scott and i finally managed to schedule a visit to eickman’s processing company to capture images for hasselmann family farm’s website. for a number of years scott has been using eickman’s exclusively to process his pasture-raised beef and heritage pork. hasselmann family farm is animal welfare approved and read more
i bought a broiler chicken from scott hasselmann, owner of hasselmann family farm, at the geneva green market and asked him if he would be willing to let me take some captures of the animals on his farm. so this morning i met scott on the farm at 7:30. i followed him as he tended to his read more