Gofundme as of 9:30 am today: $5,620. Update. We are seeking $7,000.
As promised, we’re merging our blogs into one Bedlam Farm Story, with two voices who both love our farm, blogs, and animals. My readers will see more of Maria, and her readers can share my blog, essays, and photos if they wish. We believe this will enrich both our blogs and make life more interesting for ourselves and our readers.
Maria has become a brilliant artist, writer, photographer, and creative whose work appears in homes and on walls across the country and beyond. We’ve been working together almost from the beginning of Bedlam Farm.
I think we complement each other in important ways, and come together in so many others; there’s no reason to be separate. We’re going to call the new blog The New Bedlam Farm.
Maria will continue to share and discuss her art on this new blog, along with her nature explorations, which are becoming more fascinating by the day. No losses here, only gains.
As of today (9:30 am), the GoFundMe has raised $ 5,620. We are asking for $7,000, the cost of the fusing work, and we still need about $1,500.
We are humbled, grateful, and shocked. If we reach $7,000, we’ll start the fusion immediately.
If we have any overage, we will use the extra money to help people we know who need it, and use some of it for farm maintenance, like a wonderful Barn Cat. Like everyone else, the cost of everything- hay, firewood, fences, roof, barn, animals- is rising. The flower photographer is expensive too: camera and flowers.
We can’t thank you enough for making this possible.
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This is what we wrote on the GoFundMe site to introduce ourselves and explain the request:
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We are Jon Katz and Maria Wulf, two artists, writers, and bloggers seeking $7,000 to bring our blogs together. We write and share our lives on Bedlam Farm, a farm in upstate New York where we live and work.
My blog tells the story of a life; it was inspired by E.B. White, a famous New Yorker writer, and his life in rural Maine.
I write about rural life in Cambridge, New York, and more. As a journalist, I worked in Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington, then as a producer for CBS News’s Morning News. I’ve written 25 books, 5 of them NY Times bestsellers. I love blogging.
Maria began her successful blog before we married 20 years ago. I have thousands of readers every day. So does she.
Maria is a fiber artist who has a studio behind the house on our farm. She has sold thousands of quilts, potholders, pillows, and lately, meditation mats.
Our blogs have grown in parallel; it’s time to bring them together. That is exciting but complex and expensive.
We have many readers between us, and we are seeking help merging our two blogs.
Thanks for reading this, and if possible, helping. We have raised a score of wish lists and GoFundMe campaigns for others, and we are excited to ask for help ourselves.
We believe this will also benefit our readers, who can read our work in one place. They have urged us to do this.
We both write about our farm, our lives, and many other things. I am a photographer as well as a writer; Maria has her own interests: nature, our sheep and other animals, and, most importantly, her art, which people all over the country and some of the world have purchased.
We are happy to have a new famous Barn Cat named Zip, seven sheep, three dogs, two donkeys, and two hens. We write about them all the time. He symbolizes this GoFundMe effort.
