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.
young haralson
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Anderson farm, December 1, 2015: This Haralson apple tree is in training, its pliable young scaffold limbs restrained at an angle slightly above horizontal to shape the tree for best fruit production. I like photographing after a light first snow with some grass and ground still showing through.