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Grandma’s Garden

My Texas Lawn

Pigs and the Politics of Disappearance in Iowa

Root Vegetable

A honeybee pollinates a purple echinacea bloom in a field of other purple, white flowers and vibrant green foliage.

Facts about Gravity

The watercolor painting embodies the spirit of African descendant women holders of ancestral knowledge of Mother Earth, her skin, and the soil. They are walking in a sacred circle. They wear colors resonating the earth and sky, against a golden yellow background with a painted arc of a rising sun above their heads. Their bare feet touch the soil and they are energized by the waves of green, brown, gray, red, and blue of the layers of roots, soil, and stone gifted to all by the interactive forces of Mother Earth, Father Sky, Grandmother Moon and Grandfather Sun born from the cosmic dance that birthed the Cosmos, the source of all life.

Soil Loss Is Soul Loss

Sharing Food Is How We Build the World We Want to Live In

“Who Am I?” I Asked My Food

This Shining Life

“Dear Friend”: Letters on Food, Longing, and Home

Coming Home: “Before Dreams Are the Last Place We Find You”

Water Bearer, Wine Bearer

Curious Encounter: Palm Cockatoo x Laurence Pike

All images of Palm cockatoos below ©Christina Zdenek

Exercises in Minor Ornithology: Listening to What We Cannot Know

he watercolor painting of a tree with roots reaching wide into layers of red and yellow soil. The tree has a trunk of dark brown bark and green oval leaves. The branches of the tree reach around in an arc they are holding the globe of Earth, with bright blue oceans and green continents; and the African continent at the center, facing outward.

Soil: A Family Reunion

Calibrating the Value of All Things: Measuring Time with Three Trees in the Anthropocene

Outnumbered

Mala, My Refuge

Before Dreams Are the Last Place We Find You

A woman wearing an intricately decorated bright red gown and headwrap stands with hands clasped. She has turned her head and we see her face in profile as she gazes over her right shoulder. At her feet are fungi and mushrooms rooted into layers of soil.

Yoruba Prayers to Pay Homage to Plants, Soil, and Water

Fox River Wanderer (Summer)

Craggy grey mountains dominate this painting of a mountain landscape, with several peaks rising under a pale blue sky. Evergreen trees dot the base of the mountain range, and a verdant meadow stretches in the foreground. Below, we see layered soil horizons down to the bedrock.

Beholding Horizons

A digital render of a black and white circuit board etched into a bronze cast piece of coal positioned in a natural and rocky landscape.

Future Relics

Black line sketch on white background of six river pelicans, hanging out.

Fox River Wanderer (Spring)

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Forty miles north of Chicago, the Center is home to breathtakingly beautiful prairie, savanna, wetland, woodland, and ravine in the homelands of the Council of Three Fires—the Potawatomi, Ojibwa, and Ottawa.

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