About
Why I’m here …
I’ve developed a fondness for quality food and an agrarian life that seems to combine the peace and tranquility of the outdoors with a heavy dose of hard work. I’m hoping to use my skills as a writer, photographer and designer to celebrate, advocate and honor the people who embrace agriculture and are proud of the wonderful food they produce.
To start my project, I focused on fresh food being grown and produced on Whidbey Island, Snohomish and King counties. I’m impressed with the efforts of the hard-working volunteers of the Mukilteo Food Bank to find the freshest possible food to dole out to people in the most need. Then there’s the group of budding farmers trying to grow a farm in the middle of a metropolitan area.
Thanks to the entrepreneurial efforts of small businesses and farms, community supported agriculture program provide folks with a weekly supply of food while funding local farms during slow times of the year. The program is so effective that small restaurants and small-scale food producers are getting into the act.
I will explore the rural nature of the Puget Sound area. I want to meet longtime family farmers, young couples who are buying a small piece of land and jumping into a life-consuming vocation and the small-scale food producer making honey or bread from a kitchen in their garage.
People will hopefully enjoy reading about subjects that may allude to an agrarian lifestyle, which could be anything from horses to astronomy. Go to a farm away from a city on a clear night and you’ll know what I mean.
I hope people reading this publication and perusing my website will find some joy from the stories and photographs I create. In learning about the various forms of agrarian life that takes place everywhere between the urban jungle of Seattle to the farms located in the Cascade foothills, people might remember their connection to the environment, take time to slow down and enjoy the world.
Check out the print edition of PS Agrarian