Last week marked the end of an era when the renowned plant collector, Harlan Hamernick, died tragically. He lived very near to the farm where I grew up and I was lucky to have met him on a few occasions. He started a business in 1958 that grew phenomenally out of his passion for collecting [...]
Harvest photo using a new combine in Saskatchewan in the fall of 1947 near the Cowessess First Nation. Photo credit: Shorpy’s. (Note that Thursday is Luddite Photo Day at B.P.A.)
I took the above photo this past weekend in the organic farming area of Paonia, Colorado. (Photo May 19, 2012 by Kay McDonald) Next to me as I write today, sets a blue and white vase containing three plate-sized orange poppies that I picked from the garden this morning. The visual certainly makes up for [...]
