How do you future-proof the present? How can you contextualize a specific moment? These are the questions that keep bubbling up when I meet with Helene Larsson Pousette and Robert Duffley in June of ...

AS THE WEATHER GETS WARMER each year, something unavoidable happens: the insects come back out. While some find the bugs ...

Protecting the Adirondacks’ precious forest pharmacyThe trees themselves are medicines, too many to name them all: white pines, red spruce, hemlock, fir, beech, maple, birches, aspen, all of which ...

TO BUILD LASTING FURNITURE requires that I tap into this connection to the animal. It would be easy to imagine the body as a machine. The motions of building are repetitive—pulling a handsaw through ...

MEERA SUBRAMANIAN: Such inquiry fills these pages about the natural world and how faith shapes how we interact with it, about family and motherhood and daughterhood and the tippy balance between ...

A curated list of storiesJonnica Hill / Unsplash Spring Lilacs Kristi Marciano WHILE CLEARING OUT THE fenced-in backyard of our first apartment, my girlfriend pulled a black plastic pot from beneath a ...

The transformative work of Andrea SpencerUSING FLAMEWORKED GLASS and mixed media, Andrea Spencer’s work explores the natural world by creating artworks that express concepts that relate to human ...

The Future is Fungi“The mushroom pushes against boundaries,” writes Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, “and in doing so, it creates an opening.” So often, when humans look at mushrooms, we’re apt to see solutions ...

Melanie Hoffert is the author of Prairie Silence: A Rural Expatriate’s Journey to Reconcile Love, Home, and Faith, winner of the 2014 Minnesota Book Award in ...