Mon, 08 Aug 2011 09:00:06 -0800WeeblyThu, 16 Sep 2010 18:35:08 -0800http://www.theartofagriculture.org/1/post/2010/09/one-week-to-submit-photos-and-summer-recipes.htmlPhoto and Summer Recipe Contests have submission due dates of September 23rd. In only a week. If you have any questions please contact us!]]>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 11:05:35 -0800http://www.theartofagriculture.org/1/post/2010/08/good-agriculture-fosters-good-art-and-vice-versa.html"...That suggests an even more awesome philosophical idea: what if hay that is more easily sculpted into a work of art indicates hay that is of higher quality in nutrients too? Could that be more than just an accident of happenstance? Perhaps in the most profound sense, art imitates nature and form forever follows function."

See: Good Agriculture Fosters Good Art, And Vice-Versa by Gene Logsdon]]>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:09:10 -0800http://www.theartofagriculture.org/1/post/2010/08/the-art-of-agriculture-harvest-festival-at-the-roots-farm-suzies-october-2.htmlNOTE: Roots Farm at Suzie's was the original temporary name for Wild Willow Farm & Education Center.

]]>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:03:29 -0800http://www.theartofagriculture.org/1/post/2010/08/one-month-until-photography-summer-recipe-contest-deadlines.htmlWe're counting down the clock: one month until entries are due. We're really looking forward to seeing what you submit! Due September 23rd!

Photography contest winners will be displayed at The Art of Agriculture Harvest Festival on October 2. Then the photos will move on to  Sea Rocket Bistro, a wonderful restaurant in North Park. They have a love for art, as well as food, so we're teaming up with them to show off some tasty art...Yum.

]]>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:02:58 -0800http://www.theartofagriculture.org/1/post/2010/08/a-sprig-of-dill-by-howard-nemerov.htmlSmall, fragrant, green, a stalk splits at the top
And rays out a hemisphere of twenty stems
That split in their turn and ray out twenty more
In hemispheres of twenty yellow stars
Targeted white, sprays mothered of spray
Displaying their tripled oneness all at once
Radiant and delicate and loosely exact
As the cosmos in The Comedy, or as
The Copernican system on an orrery,
The quiet flowerworks of the mind of God
In an Age of Reason––that's in here. Out there,
The formless furnaces in Andromeda,
Hydra, The Veil, Orion's nightmare head.

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]]>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:45:21 -0800http://www.theartofagriculture.org/1/post/2010/07/japanese-village-creates-art-from-hues-of-rice-ny-times.html"INAKADATE, Japan — Nearly two decades ago, Koichi Hanada, a clerk in the village hall, received an unusual request from his superior: find a way to bring tourists to this small community in rural northern Japan, which has rice paddies and apple orchards, but not much else.

Mr. Hanada, a taciturn but conscientious man, said he had spent months racking his brain. Then, one day he saw schoolchildren planting a rice paddy as a class project. They used two varieties of rice plants, one with dark purplish stalks and the other bright green ones. Then it struck him, why not plant the colored varieties in such a way as to form words and pictures?..."

Click here for some cool photos and to read the rest of this fascinating article.

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