Category: Interviews
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Harvest Feasts, And Sharing The Bounty
Fall is a good time for reflection, for reevaluating what’s important and where to focus our energies. As the seasons transition, thoughts bend towards harvests and feasts, for those fortunate to have bounty to share. But we also know that these are difficult times, and that there are many people, places and projects in need…
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Interview with Brittany De Nigris, Artist
Brittany De Nigris is an artist who explores various materials to construct poetic anatomies that often reside outside of language. Since she has a lot to say about the artist’s connection to time, place and materials, we thought our readers with backgrounds in art or agriculture would enjoy her unique perspective. She has been an artist…
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Interview with Artist Lilah Friedland, Founder of Wandwood Stream Artist Retreat
Lilah Friedland is a multi-disciplinary artist who is building the Wandwood Stream artists retreat space in Gallatin, New York. Her creative career spans helping to start Scope art fair and playing in the band Brute Force, to working in such mediums as performance, poetry, sculpture, drawing and letterpress printing. We talked with her about art-making,…
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Interview with John and Courtney Fiske of San Diego Farm Animal Rescue
John and Courtney Fiske are celebrating an anniversary next month. May marks a full year since they opened San Diego Farm Animal Rescue, in Escondido, California. Among their cherimoya trees, Courtney and John provide safe haven for elderly, abandoned and otherwise displaced horses, pigs, chickens and the like, from ranches and homes who simply can…
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Interview with David Plescia, Green Valley Community Farm
David Plescia and his partner Kayta Brady are no strangers to the land. After meeting as apprentices in Williamstown, MA at Caretaker Farm in 2012 (one of the oldest active CSAs in the United States), they’ve since set their sights on California. In 2013, they relocated to Sebastapol, CA, and in 2016, they began a…
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Interview with Jessica Perez, Blue Bus Adventure
Jessica Perez and her partner Nick Cahill are doing something that not too many people are courageous enough to endeavor: They are packing up their lives, downsizing to the bare essentials, and hitting the road in a 1988 Thomas School Bus, which they’ve painstakingly converted into a dream tiny home on wheels. Inspired by pioneers…
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Interview with Jennifer Frost
I had the pleasure of meeting Jennifer Frost while attending the Wild and Scenic Film Festival in January of 2016. She was one of the featured artists for the festival, and I was drawn to her creative re-use of discarded materials. I was excited to hear from her shortly after we launched the Terra Cultura…