A Good Life / Subsistence
byTwo poems with accompanying artwork by Linnea Ryshke, extracts from Kindling (Lantern Publishing and Media, September 2021).
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I Recall Recalling Straw
byNew poetry from the fields by Mark Goodwin, with accompanying artwork by Dominique Cameron.
Turning Tables
byAn in-depth essay on the work of artist-activist Kathryn Eddy, from Mandy-Suzanne Wong’s new book, Listen, we all bleed, published by New Rivers Press, November 2021.
Lille Gris
byLille Gris was dreamt up before Brexit and Covid-19 changed everything. In December 2017 an invitation arrived to participate in an exhibition programme at…
Digging in this Dirt
byWith his wife Kerstin, Josh Mabie co-owns Pied Beauty Farm, a no-spray orchard, flower farm, and apiary just outside of Stoughton, Wisconsin.
Beans
byA new personal essay by gardener-writer Mandy Goddard, making connections between farming, protest, and the beautiful ‘yin yang’ bean.
Meadow Grass / Unmake the Land
by“In the tracks of grazing cattle and the oak tree’s swell” – a pair of new poems about labour and the land by writer Hannah Green.
Residency Reflections
byArtist Rosa Farber, who currently lives and works at Laines Organic Farm, looks back at her online residency with The Learned Pig.
Lessons from Seed
byA personal essay by seed researcher and baker Col Gordon on the complex relationships between plants, people and place.
Crosscutting / Night Strands / Homesteads
byThree new poems from the farmlands of Idaho by Samuel Strathman.
re:rural
byAnna Souter visist Haarlem Artspace to review re:rural, a project taking place both digitally and at the organisation’s home in the Derbyshire Dales.