Summer Roots III

On April 4, 2014, I attended a talk at Cooper Union, NYC, with friends who are farmers entitled Nature as Measure: What’s the Future of Farming? presented by The Land Institute and the Berry Center. I was so inspired by the work of Wes Jackson being done at The Land Institute and the poetic common sense of Wendell Berry that I painted series of paintings showing biodiversity by creating perennial, polyculture food crops with twenty foot deep roots instead of merely two foot deep roots. Life continues underground through all seasons. There are blessings scribed in the roots and woven throughout the seasons. Summer Roots III is the seventh Roots painting I have completed.