Home @ 28 Nov 2007 12:02 pm by Christina Waters
Photographer Tana Butler has just released a 2008 calendar loaded
with her juicy images of farmers market bounty. A certified organic groupie, Butler just can’t stay away from open-air farmers markets. Collecting some of her choicest images of freshly-harvested produce, she has produced one of the most eye-catching holiday gift items to ever deserve the “local” label.
Think of Butler as the Annie Liebovitz of fresh food - she does for tomatoes what the Rolling Stone photographer does for Mick Jagger. Makes everything look exciting, sensuous and available for fondling. Food porn without apologies. (Those are Windmill Farms strawberries on the mouth-watering cover.)
Even better, Butler has managed to give us more time (something we all want more than almost anything) by creating 16-month calendar. Four more images, four more months. You do the math.
Tana Butler’s “California Certified Farmers Market” calendar is available at all our local bookstores, New Leaf markets plus on eBay - for a dirt cheap $13.99. A percentage of sales benefits the UCSC Farm & Garden. Santa thinks this is a no-brainer. Get one for yourself too!
Thanks, Ms. Christina, for the plug.
Just to amend it a teeny bit, the sixteen-month format means that the last four months of 2007 (Septeber through December) are on one page, with a glorious bowlful of buxom tomatoes from Love Apple Farm to grace them.
Locally, the calendars are $13.99, and on eBay, they’re $10, with $5 shipping. (They have to go Priority Mail, alas, because our US government does not consider calendars, e.g., a collection of images and data, to be “media.”
Ten of the thirteen images are from our local farms, and next year, I’ll call them Santa Cruz Farmers Markets, because our farms rock.
Thank you again for the kind boost. Much appreciated.