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Fungi Friday: Mushroom Love Languages
Photo by Maureen Fellinger By Maureen FellingerAs a mushroom enthusiast, I occasionally receive photos of fungi or mushroom memes from friends and family. It's a small gesture, but it always makes me...
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A Journey of Food Sovereignty and Wholeness
Sophia Buggs of Lady Buggs Farm in Youngstown, Ohio. This article is from the Summer 2022 Agraria Journal.By Sophia BuggsThere is such a buzz around the ideas of regenerative agriculture and diversity...
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Community Land Trusts: The Past and Future of a Movement
Dayton’s Africana Elder’s Council drumming, dancing, and celebrating on the Gem City Market balcony for the Blessed Are Those Who Struggle Awards Ceremony on Juneteenth 2021. Photo Credit: Dayton...
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Fall Equinox: Looking at Goldenrod
A glowing wall of goldenrod at Agraria, the day before the Fall Equinox. Photo by Audrey Hackett. By Audrey HackettWhat catches your eye this time of year? “I like anything yellow,” Kat Christen said,...
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A Spring Afternoon on The Narrow Way Farm
This article is from the Summer 2022 Agraria Journal.By Tia StuartAs the cool morning flows into the warm afternoon,I lace up my black work boots and throw on my comfortable, lightweight farm...
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And What of the Soil?
This article is from the Summer 2022 Agraria Journal.By Cheryl DurgansWhen my ancestors first had the notion of seeking freedom from the brutality of enslavement, preferring the mosquito and poisonous...
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Old power plant razed: Revisiting Morgan’s history, legacy
The Antioch power plant partially demolished. Photo by Megan Bachman By Megan BachmanOn Monday, Oct. 10, 2022, the century-old brick tower at the old Antioch College Power Plant was partly torn down...
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Seed Saving: A Living Legacy that Keeps on Growing
Ira Wallace This article is from the Summer 2022 Agraria Journal.By Beth BridgemanWhen we save seed, we are saving the important germplasm, or genetic material, within that seed. But it is also...
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Inside Time: Reflections from the Forest
Radiant autumn woods, Barrett’s Rim Trail By Audrey HackettI recently spent several days at the Highlands Nature Sanctuary in Bainbridge, Ohio, wildlands that form part of the Arc of Appalachia’s...
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Winter’s Blanket
Agraria fields in mid-October. Photo by Dennie Eagleson Originally published in the BIPOC Farming Network monthly newsletter. By Omope Carter DaboikuAs Winter approached, my Grandpa Ellis always...
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A Rhythmic Stillness
The Agraria barn prows the delicate waves of a mid-November snowstorm. (All photos by Audrey Hackett) By Audrey HackettThe snow started thoughtfully. Just a few flakes wandering the vast latitudes....
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Fungi Friday: Foray Reflections
By Maureen Fellinger“Do you have your pepper spray?” is a question I often receive from my husband. He bought me pepper spray a few years ago when I began my adventures in mushroom foraging, as I...
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Pollinator Way, Part I: Preparing the Ground
Agraria land team members Kelly Hager and Alicia Chereton cleared space for a new pollinator patch on Agraria. (All photos by Audrey Hackett) This is the first of a series of occasional blog posts on...
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In Search of Details
A lace of ice on Jacoby Creek the morning of December 1. By Audrey HackettSometimes it’s good to take the long view. But sometimes — often — it’s good to take the short view. The view in front of your...
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#GivingTuesday, and Giving Hope
A conceptual illustration of the George Washington Carver Farm, a focus of Agraria’s #GivingTuesday campaign. (Illustration by Alisa Isaac) By Audrey HackettThe results are in! Nonprofits worldwide...
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“The Community of Everything”: Planting Trees on the George Washington Carver...
Agraria Land Team member David Brown planted an elderberry shrub, among other trees and woody plants, this week. (Photos by Audrey Hackett) By Audrey HackettThey made it look easy. Land Team members...
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Fungi Friday: The Winter Sun
A wintry view from the Cherry Lane path at Agraria. By Maureen FellingerAnother gray day. For me, the winter blues start rolling in early, right after Halloween. When the sun disappears sooner and the...
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Winter Solstice: Encountering the Darkness
Setting sun at Agraria, the Eve before Winter Solstice 2022. (Photo by Audrey Hackett) By Audrey HackettLet us now praise the darkness.Some call this the shortest day of the year. I call it the...
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Last Days of the Year: Finding Time
A snag makes a natural sundial on Jacoby Creek. (All photos by Audrey Hackett) By Audrey HackettWalking Agraria one sunny morning this week, as the deep cold lifted, I found time everywhere.I found...
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Winter Wellness
A glowing warmth from inside the Agraria barn. (Photo by Maureen Fellinger) By Suzanne Perry SlavensFrom the time of the snow-melt…I listened to the earth-talkthe root-wranglethe arguments of...
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