Gooseberry Marsh
From the Orion archives: this piece was featured in Orion’s Winter 1996 issue. THIS FALL ON GOOSEBERRY MARSH the weather is warm and the water is high. As Craig and I load Continue reading
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What Seed-Saving Can Teach Us About the End of the World
IN THE FALL OF 1941, as the Nazis invaded Russia, choking trade routes into Leningrad and starving the city’s population, a group of botanists decided to not allow the world to Continue reading
Invisible Visible
Close your eyes: What do you see? Of the world you know, what pulses beneath? What does it take to see through words like veils, images like mirages? Close your Continue reading
On Cold-Weather Vegetables
Gnarled sweet potatoes, tips curling like the feet of witches. Hubbard squashes, big enough to sit on, warty, blue. Mushrooms flaring their gills. Back in July, the tomatoes and corn the Continue reading
Ricekeepers
AS FALL TEMPERATURES CHANGE on the White Earth Reservation and the mist lifts off the lakes, the Ojibwe take to the waters. Two people to a canoe, one poles through the Continue reading