Our Farmers, Our Water, Our Future
Clients we love:
American Farmland Trust and the Great Lakes Protection Fund
We had the honor of partnering with Rebecca Drobis to give form to her photo essay of farmers and conservation in the Genesee Valley. We were engaged by Rebecca and her team to serve as designers and art directors for this installation as well as to create all promotional and collateral materials. Working his her team, we culled through thousands of photos to pull out the iconic moments that tell this important and necessary story. With the help of a local printer, we are creating eight foot, life-sized banners for Rebecca’s travelling photo exhibition. Here is more information about this project:
A shared land ethic unites farmers in the fertile Genesee River Valley of New York—conservation-minded farmers who aim to leave the land better off than they found it. American Farmland Trust and award-winning portrait photographer Rebecca Drobis tell the story of these farmers, many of them women, in a series of intimate images that capture the essence of agriculture in the Genesee Watershed.
In this beautiful Wyoming County valley, many farmers, like the families depicted in the photo essay, are leaders in conservation practices that rebuild the soil and protect the environment.
“We know we are blessed and that we need to be responsible for what we have been given. We couldn’t ask for a better place to be,” says Meghan Hauser of Table Rock Farm in Castile, one of the forward-looking farmers depicted in the essay. “If we want to be farmers in the future, we must understand and take on our role with a sense of what it means to be trusted with these resources.”
This photo essay documents “Landowners and Farmers Partnering for Clean Water in the Great Lakes” work to keep streams and rivers in the Great Lakes Basin clean, which American Farmland Trust did in collaboration with a team of organizations. Funding for the work was provided by the Great Lakes Protection Fund.
The Great Lakes are the world’s largest surface freshwater ecosystem—containing 20 percent of all surface freshwater on the planet—but they face many threats from invasive species, toxins, agricultural and municipal runoff, and climate change.
This project to support healthy water and healthy farms in the Great Lakes region is also part of a national American Farmland Trust initiative to work with women landowners to develop new voices for conservation. In particular, the project reaches out to women owners of farmland—who may not farm themselves but rent their land to other farmers—to increase their use of conservation practices. The project focuses on these women landowners because they now own a significant portion of farmland around the country.
Learn more at farmland.org/greatlakes
Organizations we love: Supporting our local farmers— Earth Spring Farms CSA
To help bring fresh farm goodness to our neighborhood and to support our local farmers and ranchers, we are making Studio Red Design a drop-off point for Farmer Mike, owner of Earth Springs Farm and head of the CSA. Farmer Mike is now in his 16th season of producing organically grown produce, herbs and fruits. Earth Spring also raises around 500 laying chickens each year on the farm's pastures. In addition to these directly-produced delights, the Earth Springs Farm CSA also partners with local farmers and ranchers to deliver a huge variety of produce and proteins year-round. To find out more, reach out to Morgan at Earth Springs Farm CSA: morgan@earthspring.farm.
Buy green, buy local, and eat local!
