STONEGATE FARM

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HEART OF GLASS
Botanicals · organic farming · Seed starting ·
HEART OF GLASS
by Matthew Benson

It’s Hope Central for the farm, a strange and wonderful refuge of genetic desire. The greenhouse is where you lay out your floral and vegetal longing in orderly blocks of soil, pinch in an improbable speck of seed and say your prayers.  Ora Pro Nobis..

Ramble On
organic farming · People · The Farm ·
Ramble On
by Matthew Benson
As a photographer, my morning walkabout on the farm —half-awake, half-dressed, camera and coffee in hand—is a ritual so deeply infused into my day that I can’t imagine a morning without it. There will be newness always among the familiar...
Give and Take
organic farming · Planting · The Farm ·
Give and Take
by Matthew Benson
Out at my neighbor's horse farm this week, his ten-year-old appaloosa gelding stood curiously by as I shoveled composted manure into the truck, then slowly approached and brushed his long, warm muzzle against my shoulder, as if to ask "what are you doing with my poop?"
Where the Wild Things Are
Beekeeping · organic farming · The Farm ·
Where the Wild Things Are
by Matthew Benson
If Hinduism has it right, and honey is one of the five elixirs of immortality, then I may be fated to a life everlasting, free of karmic debt; the fall honey flow at Stonegate Farm has been that good..