Earthseed: Books of the Living ... or the Dying?

Parable of the Sower theme: an earth deteriorating from multiple crises.

Urban farmer Cameron Terry is a fresh take on Old MacDonald.

On Mighty Thunder Cloud Edible Forest farm, kale grows the best way: among weeds!

A Gullah gardener grapples with global warming, the history of race relations on southern land, a rapacious timber industry, and more.

Rain followed in the wake of Isabel making calls in North Carolina and blowing 165 mph kisses across Virigina.

For Walter Moore, “the fountain of youth” is not a body of water but the ground beneath his feet.

Willie Stephenson and Sherri Knight Stephenson both have family histories deeply rooted in the land. Now they are carrying those traditions forward .

Photo above was taken before Sean Combs' legal problems.

I’ve lived in New York City all my life but for the month of September I’m staying at Shannon Farm in Afton, Virginia through WWOOF (World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms), a global work exchange program where people can gain agroecology experience for free housing.

Black people (mostly women) cleared 25 acres of swamp land and transformed the area into the Norfolk Botanical Garden during a 1930s WPA project.

Ebony Patterson explores the cycle of shedding, molting and revitalization at NY Botanical Garden

 Deconstructing the Boundaries: A Future of Land and Food Resilience

 Season of Drying, Cooling and Moving Inward

Ever wonder why so much nostalgia is imbued in a crop that’s associated with intense heat; brutally exploitative labor and devastating insect infestation?

This eclectic collection of essays, articles, interviews, memoir excerpts, poems, quotes, photographs of black farmers includes Baszile’s own essay about her ten-year struggle to write her novel, Queen Sugar.  Together these pieces reveal the mostly hidden world of black Americans in agriculture. “I tried to gather stories from a range of people …who encourage us to remember our roots and reclaim our heritage,” says Bazile.