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A Farm Girl’s Search for the Promise of Regenerative Agriculture
by Stephanie Anderson

March 18, 2019

I’m in western South Dakota, rolling across the prairie in a blue 1970s-era pickup truck, when I first see them. Buffalo—faraway brown dots on... Read More...

Six Poems
by Robert Morgan

October 17, 2018

Poetry

Click button above to hear Robert Morgan read this poem, or click here to download the poem in .mp3 format. Rolling Rocks What wa... Read More...

A Life of Science:
The Human Story of Transformation
in Coastal Bangladesh
by Saleh Ahmed

August 22, 2018

A Life of Science, Currents, To Know a Place

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A Series by New Scientists Most people in Bangladesh have experiences with natural hazards. I am not an exception. Since childhood, ... Read More...

Florida, 1961: On the Grove, a Novel Excerpt by Andrew Furman

Florida, 1961: On the Grove
by Andrew Furman

July 12, 2018

Fiction

Isaac Golden shuffled the potatoes about the plate, his cutlery clinking profanities. He had identified the counterfeit liquid at a glance, re... Read More...

Letter to a Young Farmer
by Verlyn Klinkenborg

May 31, 2017

Nonfiction

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Most of the farmers I’ve ever known—and all of the farmers I’ve ever known well—were family members: grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins. In ... Read More...

Letter to America
by Sharman Apt Russell

February 10, 2017

Currents, Guest Editorial, Letter to America

Guest Editorial Dear America, Last October I was in Malawi, a small and very poor country in southeastern Africa. This is what d... Read More...

My/opia: Prose
by Margot Anne Kelley + Photographs by Barbara Bosworth

February 11, 2016

Image in Place, Nonfiction, To Know a Place

In this everything turning and small being breathed in and outby everyone with lungs during all the moments — Juliana Spahr One spring ... Read More...

Depth Sounding
by Martha Park

October 1, 2015

Nonfiction

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Photos by Brandon Dahlberg One summer night I piled into a friend’s car with a group of girls and we headed west, to the Mississippi River.... Read More...

What We Eat and Why It Matters
by Robert J. Cabin and Ashley Sterling Lowe

February 6, 2015

Nonfiction

Voices and Images from North Carolina Small FarmersProse by Robert J. Cabin + Photography by Ashley Sterling Lowe On the first day of my agroeco... Read More...

Review: Weather or Not, We All Eat

July 16, 2014

Reviews + Reads

Megan Kimble Reviews A Bushel’s Worth: An Ecobiography by Kayann Short A Bushel's Worth: An Ecobiography by Kayann Short Torrey House Press, 201... Read More...

Integrating Local Food and Sustainability
at Seattle’s 21 Acres Center
by Gretchen Garth

May 1, 2014

Currents, Guest Editorial, To Know a Place

Guest Editorial The 21 Acres Center for Local Food and Sustainable Living was recently awarded LEED® Platinum certification by the U.S. Green Bu... Read More...

Fall, or Falling
by Melissa Matthewson

November 10, 2013

Contest, Issue 34, Nonfiction, To Know a Place

Applegate Valley, OregonFourth Annual Nonfiction Contest Finalist Download this essay in .mp3 format. Culture: This used to be the place that se... Read More...

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