Posts by Dan Kelly

See description of lease area. See description of access area. Trash should be managed with bags and if stored outside in a covered and secure trash barrel. No food scraps or food wrappers in trash, food attracts mice when indoors and bigger critters outdoors. No clutter the lease area. That includes materials or equipment for…

Eileen Kelly, ~2010, Untitled. Collection of Stephen Kelly Eileen was born in Queens Hospital in New York City in 1929. She married Jim Kelly in 1948. Jim and his brother Jack had visited Crystal Lake in Beulah, Michigan as kids, and in 1963, Jim, Eileen and their four sons built a summer cottage on the…

Sucession, how do future love farmers do wilds resonance, the idea of people being part of the wilds rather than visitors or worse, consumers? One reason for documenting the work is when I finally get around to building the space ark and spreading the love into the cosmos, www.love.farm will provide guidelines and a recipe…

We did not have a written contract. In lieu of a written contract, all deliverables for the verbal contract were documented via email and sent to Kari on 5/25/24, posted here on 5/31/24 and the link sent to Kari via email on 6/5/24. This post was updated to reflect details of the deliverables that changed,…

Executive Summary The wilds are the life support system of our planet. Wilds resonance is discovering what the wilds want and along the way, finding out what our own nature calls for. On the northern lower peninsula of Michigan USA, 287 acres of fields and forest (116 hectares) host three wilds resonant operations; Love Farm…

In the spring of 2024, Eco Building Products of Elberta is giving 1000+ trees to Love Farm. This contribution is in addition to Eco’s annual donation of 1% of profits to regional non-profits. Would you like to help us plant trees? Volunteer on Saturday, May 4 at 11:00 am. The CSPP (Carbon Sequestration Potluck and…

Do’s What we encourage you to Safety first listen to the directions of farm staff read and follow farm signage Learn notice patterns and processes of the wild be curious about why we do what we do ask questions Experience Tour several ecosystems with a walk (or run) on our 1.5 mile perimeter trail. Imagine…

This is a work in progress. Last updated March 22, 2024. Please email me with feedback, friends@love.farm. The cell/text thread is for Friday sauna invites and confirmations only. Regrets, likes and other comments just clutter the signal. We can build an email list for more lengthy discussion, or talk about in RL on Friday. As…

In late 2021 the USPS delivered an invite to a free steak dinner. I don’t eat steak but Sarah does. The steak dinner would be accompanied by salad, potatoes and a seminar on financial planning. Sarah and I imagined attending in funky costumes, creating the sort of characters that would eat steak while planning their…