Current and forthcoming articles
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Top left photo: marine biologist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, author of What if We Get It Right? Visions of Climate Future. Top right: detail from photograph of rice field cultivation from Beyond the Fields – Slavery at Middleton Place produced by the Middleton Place Foundation. Bottom left: detail from the business card of Fred Tutman, the river keeper of the Patuxent river. Botton right: acrylic painting by Daniel Minter whose signature style incorporates botanical, aquatic, and other environmental motifs.
Forthcoming articles include:
“Assembly required,” a challenging parable for extraordinarily challenging times.
Malaika Favorite's environmentalist visual art and poetic text assemblages including "Vanishing Habitat," "Fear of the Next Disaster" and "Self Portrait as the Mississippi.”
Cintia Cabib: observations of a cinematographer who documents community gardeners and environmentalists in the Washington DC area, and the 98 year-old painter and sculptor Lilian Burwell of Highland Beach, Maryland.
Ty Collins chronicles why, as a descendant of rice cultivating Africans and other enslaved workers at Middleton plantation, the landscape now known as Middleton Place, has been a source of inspiration for him and other black descendants. They are developing a garden commemorating their ancestors and a seed sharing project at Middleton Place in Charleston SC which is renowned as America's oldest landscaped gardens.
Fred Tutman: a view of his life and work as the Patuxent River (MD) riverkeeper. Tutman is a descendant of an African American family who has farmed in that area for generations.
“I am a child of the rural south and the forest which led to the sea”: botanical, aquatic and other environmental dimensions of the art and life of Daniel Minter who grew up in a small farming community in Georgia and is now based in Portland Maine where he co-founded the Indigo Arts Alliance.
Carter Cue: reportage on the 2025 and 2024 the African American Legacy in Gardening and Horticulture Symposia with reflections about the history of black gardeners in Durham NC.
Sarah-Anne Leverette: profile of biochemist Camellia Okpodu, an expert on tree physiology who also addresses climate change.
Ellen Goldsmith: this traditional Chinese medicine specialist looks at summer, the season of abundance, not just for its dietary and health implications but also as a way of introducing the economy of mutuality and gifting. Mutuality and gifting economies emanate from the land and can be augmented by our human participation --- sharing food, caring for the soil and supporting local farmers and other local and regional providers of goods and services.
Thai Harris Singer: review essay of marine biologist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson's What If We Get It Right: Visions of Climate Futures book which offers a creative and joyous counter-narrative to the often-dystopian discourse surrounding the climate crisis.
Craig Harris and Sylvia Harris: The 19th-early 20th century Bradley-Harris settlement on the Arkansas “Black Lands” (so called because of the rich fecundity of the soil) and how that land-based legacy continues.
Hermine Pinson: Communion with trees in her large back yard helps ease grief stemming from her mother’s death in an apartment fire shortly after her parents separated.
Thai Harris Singer: report on "Deconstructing the Boundaries: Tending to Communities," the third and final symposium on issues of black and brown people's relation to the land sponsored by Maine Coastal Botanical Garden and Indigo Arts Alliance of Portland ME.
Debra Ambush: on her family's cultivation of the land in Farmville VA, leaving the land because of a racially hostile environment, and her continuing communion with these ancestors at an altar laden with large, green potted plants.
Sherri Stephenson’s follow-up to the “Living off the fat of the land with a new twist” in the Earthseed journal.
This Ecollective article grew into two articles. The second article focuses on the nature of nature itself through the foundational work of Vandorn Hinnant's mentor, a brilliant physicist, who was the co-theorist of the hologram.
Michele Washington: article on the collaboration of foodways scholar Scott Alves Barton and environmentalist sculptor Adam Silverman on the Common Table installation at Lyndon Gardens in Milwaukee.
The poetry of experiencing the person: Lizzetta Lefalle Collins from the view of the environment that surrounded her when she was living in a home converted from a barn in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, CA.
Photo essay on the rugged part-living, part-dead, ancient surviving trees of Fort Monroe, VA and the magnificently thriving, 500 year-old Algernoune oak as a metaphor of accepting the inevitability of death while still vibrantly living.