Farm & Land

I keep waiting to be ready. Put that first, because it's under everything else. I've been living as if a day is coming when I'll be finished — land bought, water secured, the pantry full, the man complete — and only then does the real life start. Broke as I am, scattered as I am, I've been grading every day against that finish line. And every night I lose, because the finish line isn't there. Nobody gets to be ready. I wrote that once and thought I understood it. I thought it

The Sacred Flow of Water This year, we face a drought in our watershed. Water is scarce, a precious resource slipping through our fingers. Yet, we are not the first to confront this challenge. For centuries, our acequia communities have managed water with wisdom. This wisdom is born from living on this land, from understanding that water is shared. It flows through all of us. How we use it upstream affects everyone downstream. Now, we have a chance to deepen that wisdom and h