Farm Love is the photo baby of Sara Dent. Sara studied organic farming techniques and permaculture at the Linnaea Ecological Garden Program on Cortes Island, B.C. (Canada) in 2008. Since, I continue to learn about the land, travel to different ecological and regenerative farms and photograph. This blog celebrates farming, ecology and food and shares this inspiration.
I began taking photos at age 16. When I started farming a decade later, I realized how much I loved capturing nature and the vast potential between image making and social change. I believe that the image these days is as powerful as the pen and advocates one farm fresh egg and tomatoe at a time for change. Light shows us our beautiful, natural world and conveys our inalienable right to live with an abundance of food, clean water and healthy community.
I want to share the love story that is re-growing globally between us and Nature. Permaculture (working with Nature to design ecology-based human systems) unfolds our potential to live collaborative and non-harmful relationships with land and community. Agro-ecological farmers around the world know that if we observe and work with Nature, she will show us the way- how to manage water, fertility, ‘pest problems’, drought, energy needs and more.
All of our contemporary resource issues can be solved through putting into practice intelligently designed low-input bio-systems across the myriad of spaces we live, garden and farm in globally: from the backyard to the country, from skyscraper rooftops to our precious forests and jungles. I believe in a big dream- “that all of the worlds problems can be solved in a garden” (Geoff Lawton, PRI). It’ll just take the socio-political will of many to make it happen.
From our hearts blossom the seeds of change, from our hands we sow our relationships with the earth!
Visit my photo adventures on FLIKR. Please contact me if you are interested in obtaining or publishing images: s@saradent.ca
Farm Love copyright Sara Dent 2009-2024.
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Hi Sara,
I’m just now finishing up Geoff Lawton’s PDC and am looking forward to turning my family art gallery into an arts and ecology center in my community. We have a 60 x 100 vacant lot next to our gallery as well as a little Mediterranean restaurant. I’m hoping to get our local transition groups to take part in converting the lot to a productive garden space and get the restaurant to supply us with fertility from their waste.
Your blog is beautiful.
Miles