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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.

As I make my way across the dewy pasture, I am thinking of my Great Aunt Margaret. Did she lace up her tanned leather boots to venture through these same fields? What did she bring along as she wandered? Did she carry upon her shoulders a divine responsibility to the farmland she’d chosen to steward back in 1930? In my mind, I find her lingering near the herd of Jersey dairy cattle where there is peace in the low murmur of their chomping and the rich scent of spring’s orchard grasses upon their breath.  Still lost in my imagination, my...

  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...