Mt. Rainier rising above a forest stream in Washington

Farm Gallery · Real fields · Real seasons

Real places.
Real growing seasons.

A visual field journal from Sun & Rain Works. Our own photographs, taken on the farms we've worked on and in the country around them. From the Cascades to California, Arizona, and Hawaii.

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Where we work

Cascade volcanoes, coastal valleys, and the open agricultural West.

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What grows here

Lettuce, strawberries, lemons, leafy greens, and the food that feeds the West Coast.

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Why we show it

Because we worked these fields before we printed anything. Not a moodboard.

Landscapes

The mountains we work under.

The Cascades aren't a backdrop. They're the watershed that feeds the orchards, the snowmelt that runs the rivers, and the weather system that defines the Pacific Northwest growing season. These three are the country around the work rather than the work itself — two mountains we drove out to, and one lunch break spent looking up.

Mt. Shasta rising above the Northern California landscape under an open sky — Mt. Shasta · California
Snow fed water, volcanic soil, and one of the most quietly powerful peaks in the West.

Mt. Rainier with a forest stream in the foreground, Washington — Mt. Rainier · Washington
Glacier melt running clear through old growth forest. The Pacific Northwest at its most honest.

Sunlight breaking through the canopy of a Pacific Northwest forest, photographed looking straight up — PNW canopy
Taken on a lunch break, flat on our back at the edge of a field, looking straight up.

The fields

Where the food actually comes from.

From seedlings in fresh Oregon soil to harvest at the end of the season. These are farms we have worked on, photographed on the job: apple orchards in Hood River and Walla Walla, lemons in Oxnard, winter lettuce in Yuma, strawberries in Santa Maria, romaine in Calexico, and bananas in Hana. We don't own them. We put in the hours on them, and brought a camera.

Rows of soil with newly planted lettuce seedlings in Oregon City, Oregon — Oregon City · Oregon
Lettuce seedlings, the first weeks of the season. Soil prepped, seedlings in, the whole growing cycle ahead.

Newly planted lettuce seedlings being irrigated in Oregon City, Oregon — Oregon City · Oregon
First irrigation. Water on the rows, where every salad you will ever eat actually starts.

Tractor pulling a mechanical planter setting lettuce seedlings in Oregon City, Oregon — Oregon City · Oregon
The mechanical planter at work. Field scale agriculture: repetition, precision, real horsepower.

Cabbage fields growing in neat rows under irrigation on Sauvie Island, Oregon — Sauvie Island · Oregon
Cabbage fields on Sauvie Island. River island soil, open sky, and the practical abundance of Northwest agriculture.

Rows of cabbage stretching toward wooded hills under an overcast sky on Sauvie Island, Oregon — Sauvie Island · Oregon
The same block from the ground, rows running to the tree line. Flat river bottom, coast range behind it, soft overcast Oregon light.

Young cabbage plants competing with weeds growing between them on Sauvie Island, Oregon — Sauvie Island · Oregon
Weed pressure. Nothing dramatic, just the part nobody photographs: everything else wants that ground too.

Weeds cleared by hand and left lying between rows of cabbage on Sauvie Island, Oregon — Sauvie Island · Oregon
Cleared by hand and left lying between the rows. One pass at a time, the whole field still ahead of you.

Clean cultivated rows of cabbage beginning to head up on Sauvie Island, Oregon — Sauvie Island · Oregon
Clean ground, heads starting to form. This is what the weeding was for.

A bee inside an open yellow squash blossom on Sauvie Island, Oregon — Sauvie Island · Oregon
A bee working a squash blossom. No pollinators, no squash, the least mechanised step in the whole operation.

A zucchini plant seen from above with silver-mottled leaves and a yellow blossom at its centre, Sauvie Island, Oregon — Sauvie Island · Oregon
The plant from above. Silvered leaf patterning is the variety, not disease, a detail that worries every first-year grower.

Freshly cut zucchini packed into a cardboard box on Sauvie Island, Oregon — Sauvie Island · Oregon
Cut and boxed the same morning. Zucchini goes from blossom to this in a matter of days, which is why it gets picked daily.

Beets bunched with red bands and stacked on a trailer bed in the field, Sauvie Island, Oregon — Sauvie Island · Oregon
Beets lifted, bunched, and stacked in the field. Banded by hand, tops still on, loaded where they were pulled.

Apple orchard with classic red barns in Hood River, Oregon — Hood River · Oregon
Apples, red barns, and the heritage agricultural landscape at the heart of the brand.

V-trellis apple block in dormant season under an overcast sky in Walla Walla, Washington — Walla Walla · Washington
V-trellis apple block in dormant season. Modern high density training that opens the canopy, supports heavy fruit on dwarf rootstocks, and makes harvest workable.

Lemon orchard rows in Oxnard, California — Oxnard · California
Lemons in Oxnard. Coastal sun, long rows, the citrus belt the founder worked for years.

Wide rows of lettuce growing in Yuma, Arizona under desert sun — Yuma · Arizona
Desert lettuce in the winter growing season. Long furrows, low water, hard earned greens.

Strawberry field stretching across the Santa Maria Valley of California — Santa Maria · California
Strawberry country. Coastal fog at dawn, warm afternoons, harvest by hand.

Romaine lettuce growing in dense rows in Calexico, California — Calexico · California
Rows of romaine before cut in Calexico. Clean lines, real labor, real food.

Bananas growing on the tree in Hana, Maui, Hawaii — Hana · Maui, Hawaii
Bananas on the tree in Hana. The tropics show up too: food has a place of origin.

Blue tractor parked in a working field in Calexico, California — Calexico · California
Working blue. The tools behind every harvest, parked between rows in Calexico.

Sunrays breaking from behind a dark storm cloud over open land

“From soil and rain, from harvest and growth,
from sun soaked fields and quiet growing seasons.”

Sun & Rain Works · Est. 2005

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