FOOD IS A NECESSITY for every living being, but where our food comes from is not considered often enough. With gratitude for the crops that feed us and the people who grow and harvest them, Orion ...

FROM THE PRICE AND PROMISE of a single egg to the life of the chicken who laid it, here are eight stories that reflect upon the world’s most popular bird.

It’s easy to forget this step, but it’s a prerequisite. It’s letting the tears fall for how long you’ve been part of it all, ...

Maybe we need a different metaphor than “mother tree.” I say this as a mycophile who doesn’t want any of the organisms involved to be given short shrift. I say this because, as a species, we have ...

AFTER ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF of dating, Sam and I decided he should move into my house. We had each lived with partners before, but those moves had been swayed by financial stress and global ...

ON A MID-AUGUST SUNDAY in that bleak pandemic summer of 2020, the air near central California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park felt muggy, almost tropical. Weird, thought naturalist Christian Schwarz, ...

Four writers reflect on the rhizomatic network of self, society, and ecology ...

THE CHICKEN WAS UNWELL. She no longer ran to the summons of the leftovers pail to scratch at the compost heap with the other hens. Morning found her in a corner of the henhouse facing the wall, with ...

adrienne maree brown has been on my radar for a while. As a thinker, activist, and teacher, she provides essential insights into how we relate to both human and natural ecosystems. Our conversation ...

A MOTHER FINDS IT USEFUL sometimes to step outside her life so that she can look back in. To see her home and the things inside it more clearly without the barbed attachments of purpose or emotion; to ...