Editorial Writing & Photography for Food, Farm & Cookbook Publications
Most publications end up hiring a writer and a photographer separately to cover food and agriculture well — one person to get the story right, another to capture the visuals. I do both, which means an editor gets a single contributor who already knows the difference between a restaurant that's actually farm-to-table and one that just says so, and who can capture a farmer's hands in a field with the same care as the product on a chef's plate.
That grounding shows up in the published work below — bylines and photo essays for outlets like Edible Seattle and Offrange — and in the pitches beyond it: longer-form features and photo essays for publications covering restaurants, growers, and artisan food producers, plus cookbook photography for authors who want their book to look as good as it reads.
Ground Truth
Ground Truth is my ongoing photo essay series on the people keeping farming and its land alive.
Municipal Water Monitoring
Published Articles
Offrange
A Farmer’s Market All Week Long - 04/17/26
Not Gone, Evolving - 12/14/25
Farmer’s Markets Won’t Save Agriculture - 01/16/26
Edible Seattle
Farming With Less Water - June 2025
Experience Olympia & Beyond
Mak’s Garden - The Long Way Aound - October 2025
Cultivating More Than Crops -
September 2024
Small Batch, Big Heart - Summer 2025
The Blog - "She'll Eat With Anyone"
The Blog - "She'll Eat With Anyone"
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Miriam Padilla almost went to law school. Now she teaches kids to cook in Olympia, on her days off from an actual restaurant job.