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 [...]
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 [...]
Images from Tierra Vegetables (spring 2010).
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 [...]
Last weekend I had the great pleasure of attending the Tierra Vegetables greenhouse-warming. All my favorite Tierra characters were there—Lee and the dogs, Zeni, Erica, Wayne and Evie (and their dogs), and a bunch of Tierra regulars I’d seen before. I also met Montana Hartley, greenhouse builder extraordinaire, and his two lovely daughters. I filmed [...]