A Savanna Life in a Technological World
With the fires in Ventura County, I think we can call it official; our heavy fuel loads have come home to roost. A week ago I could convince myself, while drinking a beer and listening to rain patter on the roof, that the fires that […]
Friends and Family, The three of us Chisholm-Harts are spending our Thanksgiving eve thinking about what we are grateful for. Obviously all of you are top of mind. We are settling into our temporary digs in Petaluma, Abel is busy practicing his walking and Hanna […]
On Monday the 9th, in the first round of wildfires in Sonoma County, the tiny handmade house that my wife and I have lived in for the last six years burnt to the ground. We were married in the front yard. Our one year old […]
This is one family’s attempt to make a life full of savanna in a world dominated by technology. Bent Grass is a collaboration between myself (Nate Chisholm, writing) and Hanna Hart (taking the pictures that led you here in the first place). Together, with our one year old, Abel, we operate under the moniker “Meadows, Brooks, and Groves.”
In the winter, I manage grass-fed cattle in Sonoma County CA. In the summer, we will once again pack up and move cattle to our property on the Oregon Coast. There, we will again slave away for our unrelenting task masters: Meadows, Brooks, and Groves.