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Selections from The Whole Field

Hallucinations of Normalcy

If you’re just wandering over, welcome — the conversation is getting interesting. Back in July, our steadfast literary helmsman Taylor…

Oct 28, 2023

Adobe Firefly (AI) image. Prompt: an old grizzled farmer sitting in a field hallucinating a flock of chickens floating through space. trippy psychedlic

Oct 28, 2023

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So Many Small Things

“So many small things aggregate into belonging or othering.” — Caitlin Strokosch

Sep 14, 2023

Peasants cheerfully celebrating a newly married couple. They don’t have much: soup, porridge, and bread, but it seems enough to have fun.

Sep 14, 2023

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Observe the Magnetic Field that Gathers all of our Betrayals

This is part 4 of a series, but it stands alone too. Read an overview of the series so far here.

Sep 3, 2023

A slide from Teri’s PowerPoint demonstration about “Checks and Balances” which recommends the book A Social Designer’s Field Guide to Power Literacy by Maya Goodwill.

Sep 3, 2023

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An Overview of this Series of Whole Field Essays

Scroll down for a TL;DR of the whole series.

Sep 2, 2023

Sep 2, 2023

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The Honorable Harvest and the Work of Small Farmers

Of all the ways to illustrate this, my mind keeps coming back to one, — the simple, frugal, graceful act of making broth from bone.

Aug 16, 2023

The Honorable Harvest and the Work of Small Farmers

Aug 16, 2023

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Toward the 10,000 Stories: A Manifesto

Part 2 of a series on shifting our culture toward ecological ways of being in the world.

Aug 1, 2023

Toward the 10,000 Stories: A Manifesto

Aug 1, 2023

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Holding the Center: Building an Institute for Art and Ecology (and other land-based projects)

Part 1 of a series on shifting our culture toward ecological ways of being in the world.

Jul 17, 2023

Jul 17, 2023

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Three Stories about Seventeen Artists

1: May Erlewine, Laurel Premo, Anna Gustavsson:

May 3, 2023

A photo showing the cover of The Boardman Review, which has a hand holding a spectrum of colorful beach stones.

May 3, 2023

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In Praise of Tori Amos

(This is a love letter, not an album review.)

Oct 9, 2022

Oct 9, 2022

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Football, Farming, and Poetry aka In Praise of Molly Bashaw

Why we named the Crosshatch newsletter “The Whole Field,” with diversions on advertising, propaganda, and romancing the rural.

Jul 28, 2022

The Whole Field Still Moving Inside It—a poetry chapbook lying on a wooden table, its cover showing and black and white image of a man moving loose hay.

Jul 28, 2022

Brad Kik

Brad Kik

film, music, graphic design, food and farming, ecology, land use, local economy, good governance, anti-racism and polytheism

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