Working Land

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.

tractor, barn, manure spreader

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Kubitz farm, October 28, 2013: Manure cleaned from the dairy barn lands in the spreader, which then distributes it on the farm’s fields, fortifying the soil. The fields produce corn and hay to feed the cows, completing a natural cycle used by farmers for millennia.