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2023

Online Features

Quaker Values on the Ranch

An interview with Jim Perkins, co-owner of a 25,000-acre ranch in Southeast Kansas. Sharlee DiMenichi
Online Features

An 80-acre Dilemma

Returning to my family farm in Kentucky at 70 years old. Jennifer Elam
Online Features

Nature Is My Teacher

Lessons I’ve learned as a Quaker farmer in Latimer County, Okla. Ruth Askew Brelsford
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A Reverence for Earth

Cultivating plants and presence on a cooperatively owned farm in Ohio. Dylan Cahalan
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Not By Bread Alone

Experiments in fasting and body prayer. Barbara Birch
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A Doorway into Life

Voices from Guilford College’s Sustainable Food Systems program. C. Wess Daniels, Bronwyn Corry Tucker, and Tony VanWinkle
Poetry

This in Remembrance

Something was always on the stove. We talked / until a lid began to dance, and again / when she… Donald Mace Williams
Poetry

From the checkout line in the supermarket

I notice the sun duck behind clouds and blue / sky turns gray. I feel the last of winter  Molly O’Dell
Poetry

Pilgrimage

drawn by liquid chemistry / redolence of home / I made my way to you Tricia Gates Brown
Forum

Forum, May 2023

Letters from our readers. Staff
Reflection

We Can Grieve and We Can Build

After the fire comes the hard work of rebuilding lives, and this work requires accompaniment. Windy Cooler
May 2023 Books: Young Friends Bookshelf

Itzel and the Ocelot

By Rachel Katstaller. Kids Can Press, 2022. 40 pages. $18.99/hardcover; $12.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 3–7. To craft this culturally rich…

Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams

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