Woolgathering Farm is a 1/4 acre micro-farm located on the traditional lands of the Timpanogos and Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ people, within the Colorado Plateaus province of the Intermontane Plateaus physiographic region, in an agricultural area of Carbon County, Utah. The land sat vacant as long as neighbors can remember, in 2023 Anna purchased the property to create a studio practice in congruence with nature by expanding dye plant cultivation and stewarding pollinator habitat. The property is also home to a log cabin circa 1900 situated behind a barn built with coal mine wall retaining lumber. Anna is renovating the cabin as studio space and adapting the barn into an outdoor fiber processing and dying work space.
I see the stewardship of this land as an extension of my practice. The health of my crop is dependent on first building a healthy soil and extending to a thriving ecosystem of pollinators and predators through thoughtful study of a changing environment. The materials we use for art start somewhere, I want mine to minimize plastic, use water efficiently, and not come into my hands by exploitation of people or ecosystems. My art is literally from the ground up using local organic thoughtful inputs. -Anna
