Things I’ve made at Salmon Creek Farm
by Rose Schlossberg
Our dear friend - artist/filmmaker and Salmon Creek Arts board member - Rose Schlossberg first came to us in spring 2018 to help pitch in around the land. In her first email she wrote…
“I have been interested in the farm for a while! Beyond how beautiful it appears to be, I am fascinated by the social functioning of an intentional cooperative living community. In fact, while researching a fiction project set on a cooperative farm, I found the salmon creek reading list on your website and read about 25 books from it. It was incredibly helpful to me.”
(We just posted a revised version of that reading list here by the way - as a part of the new Schools of Salmon Creek website.) Rose just returned from a week in River Cabin with these reflections on “Things I’ve made at Salmon Creek Farm” on her regular visits over the years…
friends! including two people who ended up being *guests at my wedding*
pizza - the one i remember being the most delicious had lemon slices on it
dinner for a big group of strangers - at the writing retreat in 2019. I don’t remember what it was but I know it wasn’t a total failure, as I had anticipated it would be
a fire that warms my cabin in the morning, while I drink my coffee
a fire that warms my cabin at night so I can go to sleep without my parka on
a fire that does not warm my cabin and keeps going out until i cry
movement scores for the dance deck with Devon Frost, inspired by Anna Halprin’s “Reinforcing the Four Golden Positions Score” from Making Dances that Matter
A paintbrush out of hair trimmed from my dog Basket’s golden tail - with Cathy Fairbanks
A new outline for a script with Lizzie Rose
A bunch of bad videos which try to capture what it’s like to:
walk along the paths, up and down the steps, through the woods, into the orchard
sit by the creek
watch incense smoke curl up by the window of the cabin
pinch pots that exploded in the pizza oven with Cathy F.
smores in Dawn cabin fireplace with Rory and Meave
a quorum for the SCA board with Ari, Malik, Shannon, Dylan, Sunshine and Fritz
a clay mold of the palm of my hand with Kim Yasuda
compost… which i assume has since fertilized plants which have since flowered and fruited and gone to seed… is that how it works?
apple cider - with Natan, Todd, Nick, Jeremy, Fritz, Rory and Meave
time and space to think
notes for the cabins I stayed in
deep breaths
pasta with foraged mushrooms with Fritz and Cathy
straw bedding for fruit trees
lemon balm tea
