A Doorway into Life

Voices from Guilford College’s Sustainable Food Systems program.

C. Wess Daniels, Bronwyn Corry Tucker, and Tony VanWinkle

First-Day Pizza

Introduction to our May issue.

Soul Food Reimagined

Making room for plant-based eaters at family gatherings.

Slow Cooking Spirit Food

Four recipes for the seasons.

Tending the Sacred

Transformation and urban farming in West Philly.

Building Cultural Topsoil

A community of growers in Southern Appalachia.

The Lord Is My Shepherd

Preserving a way of life at Stone Eden Farm.

Care and Counsel for Friends with Eating Disorders

A Friends Journal look at how to support those with disordered eating.

Quaker Values on the Ranch

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

An 80-acre Dilemma

Returning to my family farm in Kentucky at 70 years old.

Nature Is My Teacher

Lessons I’ve learned as a Quaker farmer in Latimer County, Okla.

A Reverence for Earth

Cultivating plants and presence on a cooperatively owned farm in Ohio.

Not By Bread Alone

Experiments in fasting and body prayer.

This in Remembrance

Something was always on the stove. We talked / until a lid began to dance, and again / when she came back from stirring. As we sat,

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 

Pilgrimage

drawn by liquid chemistry / redolence of home / I made my way to you

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