a journal of reflective environmental practice
Originally posted on July 28, 2017 Image: A rare January huckleberry harvest. Photo by Tom Leskiw by Tom Leskiw Guest Contributor When my wife, Sue, and I were looking to buy a home in northwestern California in 2000, we felt our combined experience in…
Originally posted on May 22, 2017 by Cherice Bock Editor, Whole Terrain Have you ever heard these arguments about hunger? Or perhaps you’ve used these arguments yourself: Modern farming techniques, such as mechanization, mono-crops, and genetically modified seeds are the only way to…
Originally posted on June 27, 2016 by Cherice Bock Editor, Whole Terrain In Soil & Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food and Faith, author and professor Fred Bahnson takes us along on his yearlong odyssey, visiting Christian and Jewish communities of faith enacting environmental care through their gardens. Along the way, Bahnson provides depth to the…
Originally posted on May 26, 2015 by Cherice Bock Editor, Whole Terrain Filmed on location in the Périgord region of southwest France, After Winter, Spring presents a cinematically beautiful, heartwarming, sometimes discouraging, and sometimes optimistic look into the lives of the region’s farming community (see the film trailer…
Originally posted on April 28, 2011 by Hanna Wheeler Image: Tom Stearns pictured on the cover of his company’s seed catalog. Photo courtesy of High Mowing Seeds High Mowing Seeds founder and president Tom Stearns knew from a young age that he wanted…
Originally posted on January 27, 2011 by Martha Campagna Editor, Whole Terrain “Toss it in the backyard,” my mother would say while scooping the excess flour off the table into my hands. “Return it to Her.” She would hold the door for…
Originally posted December 26, 2010 by Hanna Wheeler When you think of Cleveland, what comes to mind? The industrial city whose polluted river caught on fire? The undesirable city recently rejected by local hero, LeBron James? The dumpy, depressing city featured in American Splendor by…
