About The Oklahoma Farm Project
There’s a disconnect growing between people and the places their food comes from. Many families have never stepped foot on a working farm, met the people raising their food, or heard the stories behind the land that feeds their communities.
At the same time, small farms and multi-generational agricultural families across Oklahoma continue to disappear quietly every year.
The Oklahoma Farm Project was created to help preserve those stories before they’re lost.
Through documentary photography and interviews, this ongoing project focuses on the people, traditions, and daily life behind Oklahoma agriculture. From cattle ranches and small family farms to homesteads, produce growers, and local meat producers, the goal is simple: document the people who continue to feed Oklahoma communities and preserve a way of life that often goes unseen.
This project is deeply personal to me.
Agriculture has always been part of my family history, and over the years I’ve realized how quickly those stories, skills, and traditions can disappear if no one takes the time to document them. What began as an idea I put off for far too long has slowly grown into something much bigger. A long-term effort to photograph and archive the people who still live connected to the land.
What matters most to me is honesty. Not staged versions of farm life, but the real thing. Early mornings. Dirt roads. Worn hands. Rusted gates. Livestock chores before sunrise. Families working side by side on land that’s often been in their name for generations. The quiet moments that tell the story just as much as the large ones do.
Each featured farm will include both photographs and written interviews, allowing the people behind the operation to tell their own story in their own words. Some farms may be large, others small. Some have been operating for over a century, while others are only beginning. All of them matter.
This project is not about politics or perfection.
It’s about preservation, connection, and remembering where our food comes from and who continues to make that possible.
My hope is that years from now these photographs and stories will serve as a record of Oklahoma agriculture and the families who helped shape it.
If you own or operate a small farm, ranch, or agricultural business in Oklahoma and would like to participate in the project, I would love to hear from you.
