by Carolyn M. Crane | Jan 1, 2012 | Essays, Farming
“I used to believe that life’s a road you’re travelling/A straightshot down until you reach the promised land./But now I see that life is a river ramblin./ Each day you wake and try to do the best you can.” Jennifer Berezan Early Winter...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Nov 6, 2011 | Abbey Country, Community, Essays, Farming, Mining, Polemics, Politics, Sustainability |
It has been a typical couple weeks on Facebook in the land of leftie politics. Whether I am visiting the group for Save The Scenic Santa Ritas down in Abbey Country, or reading a post from a local food activist here in Nevada City, or perusing the many leftie slogans...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Aug 18, 2011 | Essays, Farming |
“The appropriate measure of farming then is the world’s health and our health, and this is inescapably one measure.The use of nature as measure proposes an atonement between ourselves and our world, between economy and ecology, between the domestic and the...
by Carolyn M. Crane | May 20, 2011 | Abbey Country, Community, Farmers Markets, Sustainability |
Twenty years ago, my parents moved from the Sierra–near where I still call home–to a town called Sierra Vista in southeastern Arizona, near the Mexican border. For two decades I’ve visited–first them– and then just Mom after my dad...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Feb 6, 2011 | Abbey Country, Essays, Farmers Markets, Sustainability
February 6, 2011 Downtown Portland, Oregon This last week, traveling in one day from Sierra Vista, Arizona to Portland, Oregon was a bit like stepping from Edward Abbey’s Good News into Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia. On each count this is an...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Jan 28, 2011 | Abbey Country, Farmers Markets, Farming |
Sierra Vista, Arizona January 27, 2011 My first morning in town, I visited the farmer’s market. My main reason for going was that I wanted to find some decent food to eat. I also wanted to show you all what a mid-winter farmer’s market in the high desert...
