By Sue Roundy
Last weekend Steve Horn featured a Bounty photo sampler, local flowers, and local food from Bounty farms during the Studio Tour!
Bounty at Studio Tour
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Category Archives: Farm Project
Harvest from Irene Skyriver’s farm!
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Flowers for Wedding Day
The other day I got a head’s up from Susan Bill at Arbordoun that she was doing flowers for four Lopez weddings the following weekend! We set up a time to meet, and it was a treat to walk with her in the flower field as she harvested abundant beauty – selecting, snipping and gathering a huge armload. On Saturday, I got to photograph one of the weddings graced with her floral artistry.
Photograph by Steve Horn
Photograph by Steve Horn
Photograph by Steve Horn
Photograph by Steve Horn
Photograph by Steve Horn
Photo session at the farmers market
Today we walked down to the Farmer’s Market in the village. I had talked with Julie a few days before about getting photographs of her farm stand there.
It was quite a humorous session as there was an almost constant line of people wanting their great produce. They would put out a few bags of salad mix, only to have them disappear almost immediately. It was even a cloudy day with several of the regulars not even setting up, never the less, the veggies kept flying off the shelf at the Helen’s Farm stand!
And of course, after spending about 20 minutes taking photos and talking, we couldn’t help but take a bag of fresh veggies home too.
Lopez Community Land Trust Seed Library
Charlie Behnke at the Seed Library
For more information about the LCLT seed library, please visit: http://www.lopezclt.org/seed-security-initiative-and-seed-library/
One Clay Hill Farm
Today we visited David and Susan at One Clay Hill Farm. They have Navajo-Churro sheep. I have photographed many sheep during the Bounty Project, but I was still shocked by how close the sheep stayed together. The Rams (pictured below) moved throughout the field in one big clump.
The Navajo-Churro breed was the first sheep breed in the United States, with it ancestors being brought into the Southwest more than Four Hundred Years Ago by Don Juan Onate. To read more about this breed and the efforts that are underway to preserve it, please visit: http://www.navajo-churrosheep.com/
Raspberries at Crowfoot Farm!
It’s raspberry season at Crowfoot Farm! This is the best year I can remember and as a result I filled my basket in no time with plump, sweet, luscious berries. While I was picking some families on a biking vacation with Backroads arrived. The kids in the group were overwhelmed with the abundance and size of the “HUGE” berries. A father commented “yes kids this island is paradise”! I just smiled and kept picking.
Haying at Sunnyfield Farm
I got an e-mail from Andre a few days ago asking for help with bringing in the final 40 bales of hay from the field. Several of us responded and I mentioned that I wanted to bring my camera to get photographs for the project as well. 
Jones Family Farm at the Fourth of July Parade
Bounty photographer Steve Horn reported on his recent visits to the Jones Family Farms/Sweetwater Shellfish Farm—“there’s just so much going on!” Steve has the happy dilemma of figuring out how to portray the family’s enterprise that includes grass-fed beef, pastured pork and goat, vegetables, oysters, clams, and mussels. So, it was no surprise that the Jones Family Farms entry in the Lopez 4th of July parade had some variety, too—a sparkling blue and white Volkswagen convertible, a bright red tractor, and a hulking, be-ribboned, green combine. Can’t wait to see Steve’s photos of the bounty from this farm.
Crew from the Jones Family Farms/Sweetwater Shellfish Farm took a break on July 4 to participate in the Lopez parade. That’s Sara Jones waving to the crowd from her perch atop the combine.
Fabulous Flowers at Arbordoun Farm
Wondering where to get fabulous flowers for any special event? Just call Susan Bill at Arbordoun Farm! Susan supplied me with lovely flowers for the 4th of July and it is such fun to pick them up at her beautiful farm.
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