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

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 ...

MY CONVERSATION WITH ARTURO would happen after I returned home, but on the last weekend of my Oregon trip, I buckled into Joe’s gray Toyota Tacoma truck as he drove us out to Mount Pisgah Arboretum.

PEOPLE HAVE BEEN eating mushrooms for at least twelve thousand years, according to the fungal micro-remains found in Paleolithic dental samples in a mountain cave in Eastern Spain. Yet the idea of ...

Corey Pressman: My question to you all to get started is why fungi, and why now? Merlin Sheldrake: I think there are a few reasons why we’re seeing a surge of interest in fungi right now. One is that ...

I AM NOT THE FIRST person to discover meaning in the eating of an orange—or five. Emperors and artists, slaves and kings have interpreted the fruit ever since sports of orange trees first pushed ...

THE CHICKEN WAS UNWELL. She no longer ran to the summons of the leftovers pail to scratch at the compost heap with the other hens. Morning found her in a corner of the henhouse facing the wall, with ...

adrienne maree brown has been on my radar for a while. As a thinker, activist, and teacher, she provides essential insights into how we relate to both human and natural ecosystems. Our conversation ...

IT IS THE FINAL WEEK of February 2017, the last of the dark nights in the hunting season on the Brahmaputra. The sun is down, leaving behind a rose-pink sky that fades to purple, then indigo which ...

JO: I sometimes feel that in an individualistic culture, people get freaked out by the idea of being tied down or responsible for anything. Thinking about a gift economy, they might say, “I want the ...

LET US BEGIN WITH the eye of a bird. Hitchcock’s The Birds contains a famous shot where we shift from the human perspective to that of the murderous fowls. On the ground, the birds attack a gas ...

Where most of us hoist our umbrellas against storm clouds, those fluent in the language of precipitation can name the feeling of rain on skin and soil and shell. ‘ Āpuakea raindrops shatter upon the ...