"Conventional industrial agriculture became very prescriptive. This is when you do this, and this is when you do that. This is the chemical you use to control that. It trained people out of that creative joy side, so kids don't want to come back. All the pieces that we're seeing right now are the end of the industrial era, as far as I'm concerned."

“I am often drawn to paint reminders of those fragile passages from one thing to the next when we are open to newness and also exposed to loss. I felt the fragileness of life in new ways during the start of the pandemic.”

"We are defined, by light, through where we are in the world physically and also by our time code. The light, what I call the chromatic balance, and the tonal balance of light in any place at any time, is always unique. It’s like a fingerprint."

The Beefmaster bull is a symbol of strength and resilience in a herd that is built for production, endurance, and efficiency.

The Beefmaster is a management philosophy embodied – a flesh-and-blood way of living with the land that represents how humans and their animals might do better to live in harmony with the indigenous patterns of the natural world than to try to fight them.

Of all the diverse classes of cattle we have on the Chico, our mother cows work the hardest.