The house is tiny, 40 miles from town, off the grid. It sits on the high plateau south of Grand Canyon, on desert grasslands dotted with pygmy junipers and pinyon pines. This morning, warm orange light from an oil lamp washes over the death’s-head painting on the wall, and seeps out the windows into the last hour of blackness. A wood stove chases off...
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Michael Wolcott believes there is no such thing as an ordinary moment. He has worked as a newspaper reporter, Forest Service wilderness ranger, dogsled racer, and regular columnist for publications in Arizona, Colorado and New York. His writing has also appeared in High Country News, Mountain Gazette, the Earth First! Journal, and on Arizona Public Radio. The gardens on his off-grid homestead near Grand Canyon grow exclusively on captured rainwater and snowmelt.
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Many thanks to Raechel Running for the use of her photograph (above) of the ranch house at the Grand Canyon Trust's Kane Ranch on the Arizona Strip, where some of us have spent time writing.
See more of Raechel's work at raechelrunning.com.
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