Issue No. 01

Field notes from a post-industrial menagerie

His powerful critiques of industrial agriculture have shaped generations of thinking about the South. But how useful is Wendell Berry’s agrarianism in a new age?

Welcome to the land of the “blue-jean burners”—where, praise be, the essential practice of setting forests alight was never quashed.

Blocked for three decades, the lifeblood of a North Carolina tribe flows free again.

My Japanese-American grandma spent her final years on a hunting preserve in Alabama. She taught me how to be comfortable as an anomaly in the South.

A lost ocean, gone for hundreds of millions of years, still shapes the culture—and flavor—of the Kanawha Valley.