The Learned Pig

Art – Thinking – Nature – Writing

Tag: essay

  • Digging in this Dirt

    Digging in this Dirt

    With his wife Kerstin, Josh Mabie co-owns Pied Beauty Farm, a no-spray orchard, flower farm, and apiary just outside of Stoughton, Wisconsin.

  • Fields of View

    Fields of View

    Chicago-based naturalist and botanist Andrew Hipp on the connecting threads between science, natural history and writing.

  • In the PoemGarden

    In the PoemGarden

    A personal essay by Professor Alice Entwistle of the University of South Wales exploring the many connections between poetry and gardening,

  • Macroalgae Matters

    Macroalgae Matters

    Seaweed in a time of climate crisis: an encounter with a rotten seashore funk prompts writer Andrew Furman to discover more about sargassum.

  • Breathing Trees

    Breathing Trees

    On a writing residency in the Andrews Experimental Forest, Oregon, Gavin Van Horn embraces the vital possibilities of more-than-human perspectives.

  • Field notes from a place that does not remember

    Field notes from a place that does not remember

    New writing on landscape and memory by Dave Borthwick, a self-described ‘tramper of fields and stander in the rain’ who lives in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.