by Caroline Ailanthus Janisse Ray’s new book, The Seed Underground, is due out on August 1st. Janisse is a two-time contributor to Whole Terrain, having given us “Towards a Real Earth Day,” in Volume 14, 2005/2006 , Celebration and Ceremony, and “Revolution: Beauty and the Coming Apart of Beauty, Becoming …
Update: Julie’s essay, “Where the Rose Gentian Grows,” appears in Whole Terrain’s new volume, ‘Boundaries.’ Whole Terrain is available for purchase online at Writing Nature Marketplace. Our original interview with Julie is reposted below. By Hanna Wheeler Julie Zickefoose is one of the lucky few who are gutsy enough to make …
Check out the new Writing Nature site, which is being developed in affiliation with over 150 writers, painters, photographers, musicians and other artists in the Writing Nature community. Their work explores and promotes sense of place and environmental themes. Individuals in the Writing Nature community have created long-running annual and …
By Hanna Wheeler Julia Shipley grows 50 percent of her diet in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. Photo by Hanna Wheeler If chores were a car trip, instead of a process from one end of the barn to another, from full udder to empty, we’d be in Montreal by the time …
If you gave a 250 acre farm over to a group of writers, artists, actors, musicians and filmmakers for three days, you might well get anarchy. Or you’d get an amazing festival… September 16-18 Glen Brook’s annual Monadnock Literary & Arts Festival invites writers, artists, musicians – and participants – …
As environmental practitioners, we cast nets to sample nature, to gather knowledge, to provoke action. Ornithologists use mist nets to capture birds for banding, advocates and organizers use social networks to foment governmental and public action, and vast amounts of data are gathered from different disciplines to construct climate change …
By Hanna Wheeler Author Howard Mansfield sifts through the commonplace and the forgotten to discover stories that tell us about ourselves and our relationship to the world. He shows us artifacts— a stone wall, a refurbished ax, a railroad timetable— and translates for us the historical, architectural, and philosophical notions …
By Hanna Wheeler David Sobel keeps a thick folder of inspirational projects in place in schools around the country. As an educational writer, Senior faculty in the Antioch University New England Education Department and director for the Center for Place-based Eduction, Sobel is regularly asked to describe the state of …
By Hanna Wheeler Scrawny, twisted juniper and pinon characterize environmental artist Erika Osborne‘s arid, mountain-west home. “Because there aren’t a lot of trees, you notice individuals,” she said. “They have this character to them that’s a product of the environment and the weather. I started looking at them as individuals …
Whole Terrain interviews Alexandra Zissu, author of “The Complete Organic Pregnancy” and “The Conscious Kitchen”
Peter Davenport was featured in the Boston Globe, Mystery blooms on Walden Pond: Scientist puzzled over tiny freshwater jellyfish (Sept. 10, 2010). As an Interpretive Ranger with the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, Peter paddled Walden Pond with Tony LaCasse of the New England Aquarium in search of tiny …
Monadnock Literary & Arts Festival author, Sy Montgomery, new book Birdology is featured in the April, 2010 US Airways magazine. If you’re flying this month reach into the seat pocket to read “Birds as Individuals” or fly over to the US Airways magazine online. You can purchase Birdology from you …