The Time of the Rains: A Mexican Prose Poem
Don Bruno in his milpa (corn, beans and squash) On the August 20, 2002, Don Bruno stood in my garden in Guanajuato, Mexico and delivered this wonderful prose poem. Rushing…
Read more“Since Time Out of Mind.” Asserting Woodland Rights in an English Village
Every year on May 29th, Oak Apple Day, the people of Great Wishford, a village of about 250 inhabitants in the southern county of Wiltshire in England, reassert their rights…
Read moreThinking About the Land 3 i: The Farmer as a New Role in the 18th-Century
Farming goes back millennia, right? At least to the ‘agricultural revolution?’ Well, only if we use the word ‘farming’ loosely as we often do today to mean cultivating the land…
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