Deepening Community: Preserving Farm Legacy through the Farmland Commons The Farmers Land Trust By Darby Weaver   Another summer growing season has peaked and faded away, and, once again, small farms across North America worked tirelessly to tie their local communities to the wellness and spirit of the landscape. These dedicated stewards fed families, supported biodiversity, sequestered carbon, and maintained ... Read More ►

Radical Imagination A New Chapter for LILIPOH Nico Haven   I know stories change the world because they’ve changed mine. For twenty-five years, I performed as a cis, straight, neurotypical man—until 2020, when it all collapsed under the weight of inauthenticity. In that moment of freefall, so many things in my life to that point felt fake, foreign, incompatible with ... Read More ►

Together in Wellness: The Promise of Community Acupuncture  Zachary Krebs   The question “What is health, and how do we create and sustain it?” has interested me for over a decade. After graduating from a community health undergraduate program and later an acupuncture school, becoming a licensed acupuncturist, and speaking with numerous experts, I have settled on the idea that ... Read More ►

Imagine entering a pristine old-growth forest replete with the organic luster of life. Your senses jump at the aliveness of this new world around you. You close your eyes and feel it in you. You hear the breeze, the birds, and the insects. You smell the richness of the soil and feel the pureness, soaking in everything around you and ... Read More ►

Just in time for this year of focus on Rudolf Steiner’s Foundation Stone Meditation, Signe Eklund Schaefer has written a most unusual book with at least one unique contribution in regard to that enigmatic and comprehensive meditation. To foreground, or perhaps background, this contribution, Schaefer includes a full reprinting of the Foundation Stone as an appendix. But more on that ... Read More ►