Stories

Radical Roots

In this guide to radical kinship, everyone from urban dwellers to farmers follow the journey of rerooting and rewilding through myth-telling as we step into the realms of the more-than-human world.

Koji is Community

OmVed Gardens’ head chef Josephine Marchandise caught up with fermentation explorer and educator Pao-Yu Liu to discuss culture, community and not being scared of difference.

Nature Rights

Natalie Koffman and Flora Gregory embarked on a project that explores whether nature should have legal rights and what the world and our lives would look like if it did.

The Colour of Transformation

Through the metaphor of butterfly metamorphosis, a documentary shares new perspectives on nature from seven global majority women pioneers who work in land justice and biodiversity conservation.

Children of the Anthropocene

Instead of questioning the ethics of having children in a climate crisis, is it time we focused on creating a loving society and shifting our attitudes on care?

My Local Pond is Disappearing and I Can’t Stop Watching

Everything is Blindingly in Bloom

How a move to the country wilderness inspired Shana Cleveland to write an album of supernatural love songs.

p_l_an_t

Rohit Nandha is a London-based designer, whose research focuses on the intersection between architecture and the poetics of food. p_l_an_t is his series of one-page mapped out plant-based recipes.

Rights and Responsibilities

Native American lawyer, author, teacher and activist Sherri Mitchell proposes how we can take back our power and build a rights-based society that is balanced, just and harmonious.

My World Your World

In an extract from her latest book, Beastly: A New History of Animals and Us, Keggie Carew unearths a remarkable tale of kinship between animals and humans in the Białowieża Forest.

We did not leave, we are here. We will return. It is our soil.

Erkan Affan journeys to their family’s home in the aftermath of the Earthquake in Turkey and Syria and unpacks how it impacted marginalised Indigenous communities, including their own.

The Gut Soil Connection

From live cultures to permaculture, soil health and human gut health are intrinsically and ancestrally linked.

Shaped by Nature

“Environments… we shape them as they shape us…” - Tim Ingold, The Perception of the Environment.

The Necklace and the Pea

Food extinction: how memories of appetites past connect us.

First Shade

When the shedding of winter uncovers the ephemeral delights of spring.

In Our Bones

Drawing from her book Umbigo do Mundo (Navel of the World), Indigenous anthropologist and researcher Francy Fontes Baniwa presents some of the myths of her people

From the Earthworm to the Economy

Nihal Ellegala created the spice agroforestry project Eko Land Produce on his ancestral land in Sri Lanka to connect and protect local farmers, families and their forests.