writings & media
Articles, photography, video, and writings sourced from our work in and beyond the field. Our “from the field” series features projects, daily life, and reflections inspired by our work at home on our two farm sites in Frenchtown, New Jersey. Our “beyond the field” series features, projects, collaborations, and partnerships we are engaged in with our broader community.
Popular subjects include permaculture, forest gardening, regenerative agriculture, plant medicine, ecological restoration, earth based spirituality, and other diverse musings on agroecology topics.
Decade in Reflection Part Three: Plant Medicine for People & Planet
/In honor of our ten year anniversary, we’re taking a trip down memory lane in a new multi part series. Through archival photos and retrospective writings, we’ll revisit forest gardening, water management, plant medicine, and other pursuits we’ve explored over the last ten years at Fields Without Fences with the kind of nuance and cosmic humor that only hindsight provides.
Read MoreShifting Seasons
/There is a shift in the air today, and I can feel the sun is beginning to set on another summer... Soon the landscape will change color and shape again.
Dynamics systems require dynamic response. Participating in a long term relationship with the natural world, means one must evolve in tandem.
Read MoreFlower Medicine (We're not that different from the bees after all)
/We’re not that different from the bees after all. Helplessly romanced by the allure of a blossom unfurling into a flower...
Flowers reliably command our gaze, silently beckoning us with their sweet, soft scent traveling effortlessly through the ether. An invisible cord compels us toward them until we find ourselves transfixed, bent forward or on a knee, nose deep in delicate petals.