A Former Students Testimonial – Derrick Soares
My name is Derrick Soares and I am from East Greenwich, Rhode Island.
My name is Derrick Soares and I am from East Greenwich, Rhode Island.
The School of Adaptive Agriculture does not advocate any one farming philosophy or style, unless it be sustainability in all its senses. But we do entertain a variety of strong voices on behalf of all sorts of approaches to the farming of the future. As a friend’s father says, “You’ll never get to the middle…
Daniel Spiro continues his interview series with recent graduates from the School of Adaptive Agriculture. High atop the list of reasons for going into this challenging and noble profession of food production is surely a love of good, healthy food. For Sarah Tobias, recent graduate of the SAA, it was this love that propelled her…
Coming at food through an education in art has allowed me to encounter food as an interplay of texture, color, and flavor outside of more traditional starting points like source and nutritional value or adherence to a specific cultural format. I have conceptually been able to play on ideas of the seasonal as emotional and…
Week 1: Introduction to Farm Life Here in Northern California, we spend around 6 months of every year without a drop of rain. Without irrigation, soil goes dormant as the microbes are relatively still in suspended animation. On campus, however, we work on the reverse schedule. While we don’t go “dormant” in the winter, the…
Alexander Langlands, Cræft : An Inquiry Into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2017. Alexander Langlands is a working archaeologist who has spent the last few decades relearning, and in some cases recreating the old handicrafts that sustained traditional farming societies in England and beyond for centuries,…
Eva King is an over wintering intern at the Grange Farm School It’s winter time at the Grange Farm School and it has been raining non-stop. With California being in a pretty serious drought, I’m not allowed to complain, especially to the farmers. This El Nino is welcomed here and it’s making itself so at…