Features

4 Ensuring Local Food Access for Everyone
Strategies to build a more equitable and sustainable County food system
BY CIARA O’BRIEN

24 Nature Reveals the Power of Collaboration
Seeing through the lens of permaculture can change the way we do everything
BY LISA BAIRD

32 Life Where the Aquifer Rises
Biodiversity thrives in seeps and springs
BY ABBY MANN AND CAROLINE TAYLOR

36 Comus Sky Farm
Life unplugged...and please bring your dog!
BY WIB MIDDLETON

Departments

20 Wild Thing
Forestalling the Butterfly Apocalypse
BY RICK BORCHELT

28 Eye for Beauty
The Wabi Sabi Way of Seeing
BY WIB MIDDETON

30 Down on the Farm
Calleva Farm Is All Abuzz with Newfound Friends
BY NIKI MARKOFF

41 From the Ground Up
A Second Life for Hens in the Agricultural Reserve
BY ABBY JOHNSON

44 Out in Nature
A Rare Place: Serpentine Barrens Conservation Park
BY GINNY BARNES

50 Poetry Corner
Barnesville School Poetry