Om May 1st, I had a photography exhibition which was my CAPSTONE project after a two-year master’s program through Antioch University in Ohio. My research was titled on Climate Change and the Future of Farms. I penned a diary throughout the last year when I went on location talking to and photographing the farms and farmers.

I journeyed to the east coast, visiting farms in the Hudson Valley as well as the New York City Union Square Farmers Market.

Many of the farmers at the Union Square Farmer’s Market came from the Hudson Valley. Some from New Jersey or Pennsylvania. They hadn’t yet felt too many adverse effects from climate change and were actually happy about the abundance of rain, which was helping to insure a bountiful year for their crops.

This is the inside of the circular barn at Churchtown Dairy, located in Hudson, New York, situated on Rockefeller land and run by the Rockefeller Foundation. The Rockefeller Foundation supports agriculture with farms and apprenticeships.

Apprentices care for the lavender.

Stone Barns Center For Food and Agriculture was next on our route. (https://www.stonebarnscenter.org.) Subsidized by the Rockefellers, again, this teaching farm is working with young farmers educating them on methods for a changing climate.