by Carolyn M. Crane | Jan 30, 2016 | Essays, Farming, Idea Farm, Word Farm |
Since I launched our new website earlier this month, I’ve fielded several excellent questions from you that essentially ask, “What the heck are you doing, CC?” I thought I’d answer them thoroughly here. As a teacher I’ve learned that if one person asks a question,...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Jul 2, 2012 | Essays, Farming |
It is about 8 a.m. on July 2 and I am wearing a long underwear shirt and winter slippers as I sit here. I’ll go out for my walk in awhile and will pick up my pace through the shade to get out of the chill and the consistent swarm of gnats that seem to congregate...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Jan 19, 2012 | Farming, Polemics, Sustainability, Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival
Nevada City, California This piece wraps up my coverage of the 2012 Wild and Scenic Film Festival. Last weekend at Wild and Scenic, a drama named BEE made its world premiere. (I don’t know why the filmmakers capitalized the title as if it were an...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Jan 15, 2012 | Farming, Sustainability, Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival
Nevada City, California photos courtesy of Whirled Beet Productions The Quest for Local Honey (Part One) had its world premier yesterday at the Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival. Wild and Scenic combs the globe for the best environmental films; it is rare...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Jan 14, 2012 | Community, Education, Farmers Markets, Farming, Sustainability, Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival
In the 1970s, Flint, Michigan was the richest city per capita in the United States. Now, it is the poorest. The population has declined 40% while violent crime has increased inversely. Buildings are boarded up. People are in despair. In the heyday of General Motors,...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Jan 13, 2012 | Farming, Sustainability, Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival
Part of my coverage of the 10th annual Wild and Scenic Film Festival: January 13-15, 2012, in Nevada City, CA. They were expecting to be doctors, accountants, lawyers, chemists, physicists, historians, anthropologists. Instead, the twenty some, twenty-something...
