Seeds
A Q&A with No Stone Theatre Director Nicolas Pitt about his production Seeds, following the story of Nikolai Vavilov.
Fields
Crosscutting / Night Strands / Homesteads
Three new poems from the farmlands of Idaho by Samuel Strathman.
re:rural
Anna Souter visist Haarlem Artspace to review re:rural, a project taking place both digitally and at the organisation’s home in the Derbyshire Dales.
Apple Path
Apples, animals, and old farm folklore: documentation from a decomposing land art intervention by artist Juliet Duckworth.
Artist-in-Residence: Rosa Farber
Welcome to The Learned Pig’s inaugural artist residency! This residency is in part the result of ongoing discussions among our editorial team. We’ve been trying to think through ways to…
Epiphaneia
Rituals; Too Full of Vermouth and Cigarette Smoke: two poems from Epiphaneia, the 2019 collection from OCM Bocas Prize-winner Richard Georges.
Field notes from a place that does not remember
New writing on landscape and memory by Dave Borthwick, a self-described ‘tramper of fields and stander in the rain’ who lives in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
(on)zichtbaar
“If we open our eyes and look further, we realize a mistake has been made, and the wrong story has been told.” Words: Marloe Mens. Photography: Kiki Muyres.
Observation Journal
In WWII, Nazis and Soviets fought for control over a seed collection. Now, artist Sergey Kishchenko plants fields to reconstruct these forgotten histories.
August & Grain
The fields were sudden bare – John Clare Across the field, a half-mile or more away – across a dry liquid rustle of oats – a…
Farming Awareness
Visionary Farms In 1969, House & Garden magazine commissioned Patricia Johanson (b. 1940) to design estate gardens. In the letter inviting her to design gardens, landscape architect James Fanning clearly…