Within the household of nature
Sustainable? For who? For me, for you, for us, for everybody? No, I’m fucking not living sustainably. My welfare is dependent on the third…
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Fidelity and fecundity
Editor’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…
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Pray and work
I’m debating whether I can summon the energy to get out of bed between snippets of NPR on the clock radio. Through my bedroom…
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Real Food Films: A sampler platter of places
It’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…
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Preserving the harvest
In small, rural communities in Haiti, farmers have bushels of fruit that they are unable to bring to market in the cities before the…
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Give us this day
Sunday after church: we tumble through the front door of Grandpa and Grandma’s house, kick off our Sunday shoes in a pile in the…
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Cane Press
Rio Coco, Nicaragua (August 2013) On his farm in the remote Rio Coco region of Nicaragua, a man uses his homemade press to make…
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A woman for all seasons: An interview with Kate Lind
Put her down at any point in history and Kate Lind would not only survive, but thrive (though in the Middle Ages they’d probably…
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The land between
live in The Land Between. It is a place that is neither Canadian Shield, nor St. Lawrence lowlands. It is a place where two…
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Work the land long enough, and you become aware of the kelp-like waves of crops advancing and retreating across the face of the earth….
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