Sweetman with her bluebirds at the old prison site in July.
Sweetman with her bluebirds at the old prison site in July. ( Becca Tucker)

An overgrown tract of an old prison offers a chance to do something visionary. But what will it take to wrest 10 forgotten acres back from the brink?

To tame a wasteland
26 Sep 2024 | 01:41
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Amy Lewis Sweetman is in her studio, which is a shipping container next to a compost heap on the dairy farm where she and her husband live. The jerry-rigged foyer is shaded by woven plastic roofing material left over from the cow barn across the street.

This is the headquarters of Agrisculpture, where...

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05 Sep 2024 | 02:14

Our annual holiday gift guide is not meant to be an enticement to buy more, more, more. It’s an invitation...

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