Within the household of nature
bySustainable? For who? For me, for you, for us, for everybody? No, I’m fucking not living sustainably. My welfare is dependent on the third…
farming
Fidelity and fecundity
byEditor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2009, Gary Guthrie explores the fruit…
Pray and work
byI’m debating whether I can summon the energy to get out of bed between snippets of NPR on the clock radio. Through my bedroom…
Real Food Films: A sampler platter of places
byIt’s nearly impossible to talk about food without talking about place—where something was grown, where it was eaten, what culture is represented in its…
Preserving the harvest
byIn small, rural communities in Haiti, farmers have bushels of fruit that they are unable to bring to market in the cities before the…
Give us this day
bySunday after church: we tumble through the front door of Grandpa and Grandma’s house, kick off our Sunday shoes in a pile in the…
Cane Press
byRio Coco, Nicaragua (August 2013) On his farm in the remote Rio Coco region of Nicaragua, a man uses his homemade press to make…
A woman for all seasons: An interview with Kate Lind
byPut her down at any point in history and Kate Lind would not only survive, but thrive (though in the Middle Ages they’d probably…
The land between
bylive in The Land Between. It is a place that is neither Canadian Shield, nor St. Lawrence lowlands. It is a place where two…
Time’s Trash Gyre
byWork the land long enough, and you become aware of the kelp-like waves of crops advancing and retreating across the face of the earth….