Contents
The Garden as a Mother
Writer Krystina Amato discusses discovering the enchanting teachings of the garden: a journey of nourishment, gratitude and connection.
Digging Deep
Bryon Armstrong talks about The Rootedness Project: Sustainability for Black and Racialized Men, a project in Toronto working with Black men who are seeking mental health support.
New Ways of Being and Healing Outside
A conversation between Sonji Shah and Maymana Arefin about how we can redefine our relationships with nature and create spaces for queer joy and healing outside racial capitalism
Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah: Art, Grief and Radical Visions
Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah has become an internationally renowned activist and educator on the public health impacts of air pollution since the death of her daughter who had a severe form of asthma.
Healing by Design
Alexandra Strelcova writes about how design can be used to reimagine our approach to healing through the use of plant-based materials.
The Wisdom of Peach Trees
How thinking about conservation brought Millo Ankha closer to the ancestral knowledge of her community, the Apatanis.
Plant Teachers
To heal ourselves and the planet, writer Niellah Arboine asks if it is time to tread more quietly in order to hear the lessons from the more-than-human world?
Of Love, Land and Labour
Naomi Terry discusses how Black people and people of colour are shifting the narrative around farming and land use in Britain.
Of Love, Land and Labour
Naomi Terry discusses how Black people and people of colour are shifting the narrative around farming and land use in Britain.
Make Me Good Soil
Anna Souter talks about the writer Sophie Strand's work around the myth of the healthy self and why she advocates a view of mind and body as part of a broader web of relations with the world around us.
Dreaming a World
In an edited extract from their new book, It’s Not Just You, Tori Tsui discusses the transformative power of radical imagination.
Karl and Nora
Writer Sonia Rego tells of her journey of trust, healing, and enduring love with Karl and Nora, two dogs, who are part of her family.
Circa No Future
Nadia Huggin's work documents Caribbean boys’ interaction with the sea. It captures manhood, snippets of vulnerability and moments of abstraction that often go unrecognised in the day-to-day. The ocean itself takes on a personality - the embracing mother providing a safe space for being - which is both archetypal and poignant.
My World Your World
In an extract from her latest book, Beastly: A New History of Animals and Us, Keggie Carew unearths a remarkable tale of kinship between animals and humans in the Białowieża Forest.
Stories from Issue #14
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Photography
As Immense as the Sky
Meryl McMaster’s work explores the self in relation to land, lineage, history, culture and the more-than-human world. Her work is predominantly photography based, incorporating the production of...
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Photography
Portraits of the Multiverse
Portraits of the Multiverse is an ongoing visual investigation between Peruvian artists Ana Elisa Sotelo, a producer and photographer, and Sadith Silvano, an artist, designer and activist from...
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Poems
I Hear You Call, Pine Tree
Poem by Yonejirō Noguchi
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Features
My World Your World
In an extract from her latest book, Beastly: A New History of Animals and Us, Keggie Carew unearths a remarkable tale of kinship between animals and humans in the Białowieża Forest.
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Interviews
A Storied Ground
Photographer Jermaine Francis’ recent series, A Storied Ground, situates portraits of Black Britons within the English pastoral landscape, prompting viewers to reimagine who is considered the...
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Features
We did not leave, we are here. We will return. It is our soil.
Erkan Affan journeys to their family’s home in the aftermath of the Earthquake in Turkey and Syria and unpacks how it impacted marginalised Indigenous communities, including their own.
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Features
The Gut Soil Connection
From live cultures to permaculture, soil health and human gut health are intrinsically and ancestrally linked.
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Essays
Shaped by Nature
“Environments… we shape them as they shape us…” - Tim Ingold, The Perception of the Environment.
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Essays
The Necklace and the Pea
Food extinction: how memories of appetites past connect us.
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Essays
First Shade
When the shedding of winter uncovers the ephemeral delights of spring.
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Features
In Our Bones
Drawing from her book Umbigo do Mundo (Navel of the World), Indigenous anthropologist and researcher Francy Fontes Baniwa presents some of the myths of her people
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Features
From the Earthworm to the Economy
Nihal Ellegala created the spice agroforestry project Eko Land Produce on his ancestral land in Sri Lanka to connect and protect local farmers, families and their forests.
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Interviews
A Worldview Route To Kinship
In their book Restoring the Kinship Worldview, Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) and Darcia Narvaez present 28 precepts for rebalancing life on Earth.
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