Category: Farm
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In 2001, my first job out of college was at the Atlanta Zoo. I have always loved animals and as a kid I read lots of books about zoo keepers, I read the magazine Zoobooks and I went to Zoo Camp… so naturally I wanted to give being a Zoo Keeper a try. But when…
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Mimi and I had our first trial photo-shoot for the Wool Book (click here to read more about the project.) The main idea is to create a book with patterns for wool garments, created by Marlie, with stories and background information about local farmers and the agricultural region we live in, written by Mimi, and…
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I just got around to scanning these, they are from the sheep shearing day I wrote about earlier. Those photos are digital and these are from the beloved Rollei. Look at the detail in the ringlets…. I love it. But as you can see, I still need to work on how to use the Rollei…
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One thing I am excited to do is pair up with people who are doing social research for either their own academic or personal endeavors. One such person I have been lucky to meet is Jonah Raskin, a professor at Sonoma State University. He is writing a book about his experiences on local organic farms.…
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The farmer in Bill Chumley wants the area that he grew up in to stay rural but to actually earn money, he owns a landscaping business and more developments mean more jobs for his family. Sherrie Morrow has just completed her first year in the real estate business. She likes the open green spaces and…
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This is Sandra Gowan, the town clerk, and Mayor Gene Snow. And in Reidville, the fight is on and they are begrudgingly leading the fight because the fight involves the “Z” word…..zoning. Reidville as it has been known for over 200 years is on the brink of being swallowed by subdivisions. Countryside lost. People are…
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“91 years old and nothing aches.” A farmer all his life with nothing left to farm except the weeds. He still has 15o acres left over from the land grant that was given to his great grandfather by the King of England, and to the developers’ dismay, he is saving it for his kids. The…
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Today we are farming houses in America and we are farming grass to put in the yards of our houses….. and to put on our golf courses that surround our really fancy houses.
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This is Aaron, my sole representative of Christian Exodus, so far. He moved to SC a year ago, he packed up what belongings he could, including his dog, in a minivan and left his home state Maryland. This was after his initial attempt to bike down as a publicity move for CE. Aaron only made…
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so I was also hoping to get some quality paper writing time in, in the quiet of the country……i didn’t plan on having to deal with a sick cow. so this is me studying walker evans. the cow didn’t make it. hard life lessons on the farm, it was a sad day.
somewhere between a handshake and two kisses 