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Tierra Collaboration

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Wayne James from Tierra Vegetables is collaborating with us—we went and dropped off a little gopro camera a few weeks ago and he’s been documenting work on a barn that they rescued. The barn is quite old and was on a site that is going to be turned into a medical center. This post from [...]

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Video: Porch and cat

It’s an experiment with our new Herocam, so forgive us for the mundane subject matter. We like the video in spite of that.   Hayloft experiments from The Seedling Project on Vimeo.

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Greenhouse and Smoker Tour

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If you’ve ever enjoyed a product from Tierra Vegetables—a spicy jar of jam, a glorious chili powder, flavorful hot sauce, or enormous squash, it was probably born here in this warm, bright and innovative greenhouse. As part of their thirtieth anniversary celebration and as a kind of greenhouse-warming celebration of the new structure on the [...]

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Soup: Potato Squash and Sour Milk

Squash in progress

The person I live with has had a bad bicycle accident and he must eat only soft foods. This has meant that I have cooked rather a lot of soup for the past four weeks. So far I haven’t even made it through the small soup section of Alice Waters’ The Art of Simple Food. [...]

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Spring (2010)

My Peruvian favas and their lovely markings.

Images from Tierra Vegetables (spring 2010).

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Winnowing

Winnowing fava beans in July from The Seedling Project on Vimeo. Many of you know that I have been haunting Tierra Vegetables for over a year now, beginning with the handoff of my ten Peruvian bean seeds and continuing through harvest, planting, harvest again… Within the larger project of a movie about fava beans are [...]

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