Photo and Summer Recipe Contests have submission due dates of September 23rd. In only a week. If you have any questions please contact us! Add Comment "...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 NOTE: Roots Farm at Suzie's was the original temporary name for Wild Willow Farm & Education Center.  We'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.  A Sprig of Dill by Howard Nemerov 08/13/2010
Small, 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.  Sunflower Art 07/31/2010
 "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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