Sep 14th, 2012
Despite the number of farms I’ve seen, I don’t think I’ll ever lose my fascination for seeing the where the food i enjoy comes from. I grew up in a land where produce came from the left end of the supermarket, and meat was behind glass along the back wall. After years of the farmer’s […]
Jun 25th, 2012
This summer, I had the opportunity to spend some serious quality time on a hidden gem of a farm, Rancho Manzana, nestled in the hills of Chimayo. I won’t say too much here about the story, since I both wrote and photographed the story for Trend Magazine, and you can read “Back to the Future […]
Apr 26th, 2012
New Mexico isn’t easy farming land. It’s hot, it’s extraordinarily dry, and at the higher altitudes, the growing season follows its own timeframe, varying significantly from lower lands. Nestled above 8000 feet in the Sangre de Christo mountains, the experience of walking the perimeter of Box Car farm is visually more reminiscent of postcards of […]
Jun 7th, 2011
You could call this: putting your money where your mouth is. Or…really, maybe it’s closer to putting your mouth where your money is. Just exactly how “local” is local and sustainable food? Is it the 20 minute weekly drive to the farmer’s market? Is it a potato from Colorado? Or is it throwing on your […]
Apr 17th, 2011
“Farming is 90 percent fixing things that break,” says Erin Wade. Wade is fascinating because she didn’t grow up on a farm – in fact she migrated to farming from what she calls the shoe-ocracy of the high fashion publishing world. But somewhere between Milan and Nambe, Wade became consumed with the idea of both […]
Sep 7th, 2010
In February, 2010, I began documenting the new approach to being a restaurant – from cultivation to supper club to compost – embodied by Real Food Nation. When I began shooting in February, I had little sense of the potential hidden in the the dry dirt acreage behind the restaurant. Throughout the year, grower Kathy […]
Aug 18th, 2010
The Albuquerque Growers Market is a truly “local” farmer’s market. Based in Morningside park on Central Avenue in downtown Albuquerque, their motto is “local food for local bellies“. On a Saturday morning, you’ll find young children grinning through face paint, solitary grandmothers carefully selecting fruit, college students getting a burrito for breakfast, a tourist sipping […]
Apr 3rd, 2010
“I follow the directions on the seed packet.” That was Jeff’s answer to my question of how he learned how to grow the vibrant green chard and fennel and lettuce crowding the greenhouse on his Red Mountain Farm. From its picturesque setting on the River Chama in the Abiquiu valley, the farm looks like a […]
Feb 19th, 2010
in 2007, Michael Pollan’s “Omnivore’s Dilemma” changed the way I see farming, cooking, eating. I’d been hearing phrases like “Slow Food” for years, without really absorbing what it meant. I grew up mere miles from Alice Waters’ iconic Chez Panisse – and thought this whole concept of creating cuisine from locally sourced ingredients sounded pretty […]
Nov 14th, 2008
The way I see it, I never actually, really, truly tasted a real chicken until I moved to Santa Fe and discovered Pollo Real at the Farmer’s Market. Tom and Tracy raise a french heritage breed called Label Rouge, and the flavor leaves me speechless. Wordless. After reading Michael Pollan’s “Omnivore’s Dilemma”, and learning about […]
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