Blog by krista

I had a dream last night about designing for the minimum distance separations ( MDS) required by OMAFRA and I very quickly realized that distances of 300-500ft are going to cause the extinction of the farmyard. The farmyard is the area between house and barn. It is a sheltered area to work on tract...

A bit of irony...honorable mention for the Emerging Terrain banner competition.

At a recent conference for Sustainable Food Systems in West Lorne 2025"(see post) I was introduced to the work of Dan Needles, a playwright who has self proclaimed the title of keeper of 'farmer thinking'. Dan describes farmer thinking as three things; absolutely practical, h...

They say you can take the girl away from the farm, but you can't take the farm away from the girl.  I left the family farm in 2002 to pursue a career in architecture and came full circle in 2008 when I started my master's thesis on architecture and agriculture: agritecture. A few definitions (t...