Here at Frog Face Farm, we intend to offer resources, ideas, and perspectives about how we can create more sustainable, self-reliant, and prosperous communities here in the Sierra Nevada. However, we will also explore ideas from around the world that we can adapt to our own ways of living, so we can build stronger, more resilient homes, communities, and businesses.

Here we plan to offer education and business opportunities, tools, design strategies, historical and cultural perspectives, and more that will help Sierra Foothills’ residents adapt and thrive both here and in our global context. Please explore the content that is found on our website and return soon to survey this ever-expanding place where you will find more interesting ideas, stories, planning tools, sustainability concepts, and much more.

During this pandemic, we are quite comfortable remaining somewhat self-contained at our home. Like most people, we only welcome visitors when we know they were coming and why. We thank you in advance for contacting us if you have an interest in visiting us here though we are not a retail farm. We hope that the website itself can answer most questions about what we do and how we might benefit local residents and communities.

“There is no limit to the amount of good a person can do if they don’t care who gets the credit”

This was inscribed at the front of the Cataract Canyon Geology River Guide that Ken took in 1969 with Frank Hoover (pioneering river and Sierra Club guide), Don Wilson (pioneering rock-climber), George Wendt (founder of OARS and Sobek River companies), and others.
The Land of Standing Rocks
After the confluence of the Green and Colorado Rivers and shortly before the entrance to Cataract Canyon is The Land of Standing Rocks, a 2-mile uphill hike from the Colorado River, maybe 1000′ elevation gain. Please notice that these rocks alternate between light-colored, resistant beach-deposited sandstones and reddish-colored, easily eroded mud- and silt-stones that were alternately deposited on the shore of an ancient sea, near the end of the Paleozoic Era, about 250 million years ago, long before dinosaurs and flowering plants appeared.