In Praise of Tori Amos

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

Middle-age has added two flaws to my growing list, both unavoidable. First, hairs of startling length growing out of my eyebrows, and second, nostalgia. I’ll speak no more of the former, but oh, nostalgia—the fondness…

Observe the Magnetic Field that Gathers all of our Betrayals

The Honorable Harvest and the Work of Small Farmers

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.

Coppice Agroforestry: An Evening with Dave Jacke & Crosshatch

Your Empty Bank Account Is Your Best Tool for Soil Health

A Synopsis of an On-Farm Workshop

Driving to May Farm, I thought I knew what to expect: a farmstead, brick walls, hand-hewn timber, smoke wafting from a chimney in the evening glow, and the cacophony of…

What I Needed To Learn (at the Indigenous Food Sovereignty Symposium and Festival)

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

Hallucinations of Normalcy

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

Three Stories about Seventeen Artists

1: May Erlewine, Laurel Premo, Anna Gustavsson: