Summer Pruning in the Butler Cherry Orchard

What’s “Alternative Agriculture”? The Grange School is unique among farmer training programs in providing intensive introductions to livestock as part of its regular curriculum. The current generation of alternative agriculture programs started out with Alan Chadwick’s intensive vegetable production program at the University of California Santa Cruz. The apprenticeship program there at the re-named Center…

What’s “Alternative Agriculture”? The Grange School is unique among farmer training programs in providing intensive introductions to livestock as part of its regular curriculum. The current generation of alternative agriculture programs started out with Alan Chadwick’s intensive vegetable production program at the University of California Santa Cruz. The apprenticeship program there at the re-named Center…

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…