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

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 ...

How to swallow sunIT’S SPRING ON THE South Fork of the Salmon River in west-central Idaho. I am on a hillside still bright with new growth. All winter I have thought about this hike, this place, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Begin, O Small Boy, to be Born Chris Dombrowski THE MANIFOLD RADIANCE OF AN EXPECTANT MOTHER: hips widened to the hilt, abrupt, pear-like slope of the belly, cheekbones staunch with strength, skin ...

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 ...

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 ...

Elsa Tomkowiak All Ecology is Queer adrienne maree brown and Amy Ray Amy Ray (AR): It’s incredible to have discovered your work. It came at the right time. adrienne maree brown (amb): I’m really ...

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 ...

The course Writing the Unseen Places are almost always more than they appear. Beneath the surface of familiar, local landscapes lie vast environmental histories, some shaped by people, and others by ...