Blog — Farm Life

Some stories of stewardship begin with the land. This one begins with a dinner, a chuck roast, and a mother who believed she had found the right woman for her son.

The menacing table grapes depicted on the front of The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan haunted me, yet within the week, I’d read the entire thing. Pouring over its pages, I wondered why I had never thought about where my food comes from. I thought all cows happily ate grass out on a pasture their whole life. It never occurred to me that they were being shipped all over the country, shoved in confined feed lots, and being treated with disgrace so that we could consume endless amounts of hamburgers. 

In 1930, a mosaic of agriculture surrounded the dairy at Foxhollow Farm. Tended by a tenant farming family of the 20th century, their land-management approach was a synergistic one.

  The Story of the Stones at Foxhollow Farm In 2007, we were introduced to the work of Marko Pogacnik, a Slovenian artist who has dedicated his life and art to a practice he calls “Earth Healing.” As part of this practice, Marko developed a unique method, Lithopuncture, which uses the strategic placement of limestone pillars to function like acupuncture for the Earth. Just as the human body has meridians – energy channels that, when blocked, can lead to weakness or disease – the Earth has its own energy pathways. When these channels become obstructed, the vitality of the soil...