Working Land refers to two facets of rural landscape: the idea of working the land as a vocation and as a description of productive ground. My family tree includes immigrant ancestors who made a living from working the soil and some of their descendants who carry on this work to the present day. That personal connection to working land inspired the project.
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Kubitz farm, September 30, 2014: On the left, a field where the crop changes each year in a rotation: corn, soybeans, alfalfa, wheat and oats. On the right, long-term pasture land for dairy cows’ grazing during the grass-growing seasons. A barbed-wire fence with an orange twine gate-latch divides them. The strip between is not worked, left to the small creatures—crickets, snakes and mice.