Photo Essay

Hands on the Land

By / Photography By | July 09, 2021
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Ben Armstrong joins netting together by hand at the Farm Collaborative.
Bennet Silverman moves rocks to hold down the walls of a greenhouse in morning light.
Like tree rings, the hands of a farmer tell tales of a life well lived and well worked.
Roaring Fork Valley farmer Adam Kracl revisits the gears of a thresher in which he lost fingers on his left hand in 2017. “It happened so quick and then I lifted my hand up out of it and thought ‘Uh-oh.’”
Cooper Means tosses a lasso in the bed of a pickup on the way to herd sheep.
The photographer’s contact sheet depicts life on the farm and the hands-on nature of the work done there day to day.