Earthseed
Earthseed, the Ecollective journal
The Ecollective journal
Vol. 1, 2023
The Earthseed journal is named for the collection of writings by Lauren Oya Olamina, the protagonist of Octavia Butler’s novel, The Parable of the Sower.
Lauren keeps a journal that includes reflections about her spiritual philosophy called, “Earthseed.” The basic principle of the philosophy is cooperation. Read more about this philosophy and its relation to current crises in the Earthseed “The summer of our discontent” editorial. The Earthseed journal, volume 1, 2023
The Perpetual Gardeners of Penllyn
For Walter Moore, “the fountain of youth” is not a body of water but the ground beneath his feet.
Books and other publications, 2021-2022
They include We Are Each Other's Harvest by Natalie Bazile. 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.