Last week I started a project that has been stuck inside of my head for a while now. The photographs below are a little different than what you might be used to seeing here but I hope you’ll stick around and enjoy them in your own way. I’m not yet certain the shape this project will take but if I may borrow the thought of a wise friend who recently announced a project of her own, I am sure that as long as I start somewhere, it will happen the way it should.
I have always been interested in food, nutrition and health but in the last few years it’s become quite a large part of where I draw my inspiration. This project is about where real food comes from, how it looks as it grows, the patient and undeterred people who help bring it to us, the beautiful and simple meals real food can create and how much better it can make us feel. This project is about small farms and the welcoming of visitors to these farms. It’s about the meals created to nourish us and the community these meals create. And it’s about hard work, about living and about appreciating it all as one large system.
Although this idea has been propelled by books like Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and Michael Pollan’s Food Rules and Omnivore’s Dilemma, my hope is that it is more of a photographic appreciation and those better with words than me will continue their important writing on the subject. I can’t wait to see how it all unfolds.
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For today, here are photographs from my first farm visit. I had the honor of roaming Bending Sickle Community Farm with Meghan who you’ll see pictured below. She was a great and entertaining host and I thoroughly enjoyed my visit both with her and the animals. When I arrived, I was greeted by the happiest dog on the planet and I went on to meet so many other happy animals – just the way it should be! If you’re interested, definitely check out their site or their goods at the Ann Arbor Farmers Market. And many thanks to Meghan and Ben for allowing me to visit!
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