The Language of Drought and Duty
Sometimes, God does not simply give or withhold. Sometimes He rearranges who belongs where.
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The Hardware Store
The hardware store’s customers aren’t just customers. They aren’t just numbers on a spreadsheet. They are its neighbors.
The Prospect of a Meat-Free Future
There are problems that we do not have the luxury of waiting for lab-grown burgers to solve.
Gardening and the Moral Life
For humility, there is nothing like gardening.
Living in Ælfric’s Orchard
We should remind ourselves of our eternal home by making an image of it, not as an idol but as an icon.
A Sign Does Not a Century Farm Make
You can’t have a farm divorced from community, and you can’t have community without people. A farm isn’t a farm without a farmer.
Why Can’t I Use What I Have?
Lamentations 5:4 bewails, “We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.” In exile, Israel mourned the loss of free access to the land’s gifts.
From the Editor—Local Culture 7.2: Work and Leisure
Wading in a river and lumberjacking in the woods are at once work and play, play and work, and in this they resemble anything we might do for instrumental ends and yet, at the same time, take a great deal of pleasure in.
Love and Loathing in Lawn Tractor Land
In the ultimate form of mimesis, the well-seasoned mower who comes to know every inch of the property he maintains, also comes, in the end, to know the contours and corners of his own mind, given sufficient time.
What We Lose When We Lost the Plot
He who has a piece of ground to call his own is not truly bereft, no matter what else is lost.