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Fun times yesterday with @wildfarmalliance at Luz del Valle Farm :: Flying drone in the rain 🌧️🌧️🌧️and interviewing 🎤 farmer Karell Reader in her (nice n dry) barn. Telling the story of her beautiful commitment to increasing native plant and beneficial insect and bird bio diversity on a (now organic) apple orchard whose soil was completely sterile nine years ago. Check out those wee Western Bluebirds in the nest box and that big owl box at the end! 🦉🦉🦉🍎🍎🍎🐞🐞🦉🐞🦉🦉🐞🍎
🌞 Amazing field day with @wildfarmalliance at Juan Santana’s almond farm in Livingston, CA. Fifty local producers came to learn best conservation practices, then Señora Sylvia shared her “carne delicioso” for lunch. Super fun A Roll sessions in the orchards, drone over hedgerows, laughs at sunset with cast and crew. Spring was in the air. 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸
"When I worked at the UCSC Farm and Garden with Alan Chadwick, I noticed that the garden - I mean the metaphorical as well as the physical garden - is a great place for people to Learn How to Be Themselves. You are a part of this constant force of nature. And the whole thing is about being observant, I mean really observant. For people who haven’t had to do that, even if they don't ever become farmers, it’s a valuable lesson, a part of the development of the person, like 'Oh yes, I learned to look at things in a truer way.' In Buddhist tradition, to do Real Work is a larger context from which to look at things, a way of connecting to something bigger. We try to observe all these small things, and together they are really important. We consider our environment, our neighborhood, our community, our workers, our friends. Especially now." - Dennis Tamura, co-owner @blueheronfarms . Photographed October 2020 with @wildfarmalliance . . @ucsccasfs #alanchadwick #alanchadwickgarden #farmwisdom
Beautiful sit down-catch up with young sister @juliepavuk at a glowing rooftop garden high above the Mission District. I documented her community work @cityslickerfarms a few years ago and yesterday saw what she’s currently up to as urban ag lead @tndcsf : managing food growing spaces for affordable housing developments. Inspiring! Check out the view. 🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬
New Years Day Alcatraz finisher Robert Cadenas feelin’ it. @dolphinclubsf #openwaterswimming #openwater #alcatraz #happynewyear #beginagain #intentions #waterislife #fountainofyouth #watertemple #jump
Great part about re-organizing the studio is unearthing old portfolio images. Here’s a fave story I covered: an assignment on cloistered Dominican Sisters in Western Massachusetts for Yankee Magazine. I got special dispensation from the local bishop to live with the community for a week. By the end they called me Sister Anne. Lively, compassionate women.
Wise words from one of my longtime and beloved clients: “As the country celebrates Thanksgiving, @wildfarmalliance acknowledges with gratitude the farmers and farm workers who labor to put food on our tables. We also acknowledge the first stewards of the land where our food is grown. We live, work and learn on the traditional lands of many tribes of Indigenous peoples across North America. We honor with gratitude the land itself as a living entity that supports countless interconnected beings, and the ongoing connections of Indigenous peoples to these waters, lands, plants, and animals. We recognize that traditional ecological knowledge is imperative in protecting and restoring wild nature. If you don’t know whose land you reside on, go to the map here: https://native-land.ca/ 🛩📷 @annehamersky ✍🏼 @shellysconnor #gratitude #thankful #wildfarming #landjustice #bringnaturebacktothefarm #ohloneland #lakotanation #firstpeople
🫧🛟 Have been one of lead volunteers on the @dolphinclubsf IG team for a couple years now. Best part? Building community. 🥽🤿 We swim. We row. We daydream. We celebrate. We fundraise… for free swim lessons for kids in need of ‘em. We raised more than $1000 Friday night. Thank you community! ✅ 🫧Prevent drownings. ⚓️Swimming is a life skill. #sinkthestats #kidsgottaswim #dolphinclubsf Follow @dolphinclubsf to get donation link in bio. 🌞⚓️🫧⭐️
