California's seventy seven thousand farms on twenty five million acres of land produce two-thirds of the nation's fruits, vegetables and nuts. Our project, Fertile Ground, captures and pays homage to that which enables this bounty. The images depict the landscape of endless arrays of nascent seedlings peeking out from the rich black soil through plastic pathways along rolling hillsides bathed in fog. Printed in black and white, the viewer experiences the soft light, the vistas of rhythm and repetition, the sporadic arcs of water and white hoop houses that loom across the vast horizons of state, be it in the central coast or the Coachella valley.