{"id":5409,"date":"2022-04-29T09:56:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T08:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bacsac.com\/journal\/?p=5409"},"modified":"2024-09-09T16:59:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T15:59:26","slug":"finca-tierra-negra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bacsac.com\/journal\/en\/finca-tierra-negra\/","title":{"rendered":"Finca Terra Negra"},"content":{"rendered":"

The black earth of Finca Tierra Negra<\/h2>\n
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Britt Browne with her dog Samson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I am an interdisciplinary artist and grower, living in Pasadena in the foothills of Los Angeles. In 2017, I founded Finca Terra Negra<\/em>, a restorative project with a mission to bring real food nutrition back to the soil by making small batch compost. It all started when I was growing Japanese species of indigo in Vermont \u2013 a project at the intersection of art and agricultural studies. Learning about this ancestral tradition <\/span>, I discovered a beautiful reverence to the composting process that I had never seen before.<\/strong>
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artists Rowland and Chinami Ricketts composting indigo leaves to make the traditional Japanese dye<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Back in LA, I started taking intensive soil science courses and managed the start-up of the LALA urban community farm. We had inherited a blank compacted hillside and needed to build soil to realize our dream of growing food. This is how I got into my first ambitious composting project, experimenting with the Lasagna method!<\/strong><\/p>\n