Build Soil Published on terrafoto Website by Ellen Kok

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Build Soil Published on terrafoto Website

ellen kok

Jul 3, 2023

Location: USA, New Hampshire

Once, about twelve years ago, when he was weeding carrots, American farmer Bruce Bickford found an arrowhead. “The very tip was broken off, but otherwise it was in really nice shape. I was holding something in my hands that somebody formed three to four thousand years ago. There were people here before me. I think about what an amazing spot this must have been (…). They had a spring that was revered, they had everything to be comfortable: water, good soil, and it’s a perfect area for wildlife, any game, obviously great fishing.”

For almost two years I followed life on Abenaki Springs Farm, the small organic family farm of Bruce Bickford and Kirsten Anderson in New Hampshire, USA. It is located just above and named for what was once a sacred water supply to the Abenaki, the People of the Dawn Land, a farming society that supplemented agriculture with hunting and gathering.

Neither Bruce nor Kirsten come from farming families, but they make it their business to grow nutrient rich food for their neighbors in a sustainable way. Now you can read their story Build Soil on the terrafoto website.

Build Soil is part one of my ongoing personal project Farming for the Neighbors.

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