Today on 𝒟𝒶𝓇𝓀 𝒫𝓇𝑜𝓅𝑒𝓇𝓉𝒾𝑒𝓈 ✿ @loamlove & @amiriofreeman 📚🌱
Kate Weiner and Amirio Freeman found each other as collaborators on this very platform, almost a decade ago. Since then their creative partnership has expanded, and they have *a lot* to say about IRL publishing as a tool for resonant connection, embodied inquiry, and climate resilience. Read our full convo on dark.properties ✿ or at the 🔗 in bio 📖
Today on 𝒟𝒶𝓇𝓀 𝒫𝓇𝑜𝓅𝑒𝓇𝓉𝒾𝑒𝓈 ✿ @flowerscout 🌷✨
Spring has sprung, and as @dark.properties ’ first interview back after a long winter hiatus, it’s only appropriate to feature an OG farmer-florist, Colie Collen. Read our full conversation, full of springy wisdom and gorgeous flowers, on dark.properties ✿ or at the 🔗 in bio 🌸
Today’s @dark.properties dispatch is a diaristic essay by artist and horticulturist @cortnet_ , who stayed in one of the @strangefound cabins for a month this summer as a gardener-in-residence. In the essay, C.C. reflects on the death of a toxic gardening job, and digging into a strange garden as a way to re-find herself. Read the full essay + subscribe at the 🔗 in bio. ☀️ ☁️
🌿Weeds aren’t an enemy, they’re the beginning of something beautiful. 🌾✨
@rewildyourcampus co-directors Mackenzie Feldman & Sheina Crystal were residents at @strangefound recently, and while on-site in the Catskills, they spoke with @willak of the @dark.properties newsletter about all the reasons why campuses should trade pesticide-laden lawns for vibrant, biodiverse landscapes.
We’ve pulled a few choice quotes from the piece above, but recommend reading the full interview to learn more about what it takes to transition away from toxic sprays towards healthier people, plants, and soil. Link to full piece is in @dark.properties ’ bio!
When I first reached out to LinYee Yuan, MOLD’s founder and editor, about doing an interview series together, I was a bit horrified to hear that the magazine would cease publication on this year’s summer solstice. Since starting Dark Properties, I’ve looked to MOLD as a model publication that, throughout its 12-year run, has aptly demonstrated how a niche topic (“the future of food”) can be both endlessly fascinating, as well as endlessly instructive.
Link in bio to read more from RECOMMONING, a collaborative series with Dark Properties, that searches out a more open, collectively held world where, once gain, and is held in common.
Back in 2018, I left a cushy tech job to move to the woods. When people asked why I was leaving, I told them I was going upstate to start an artist residency. While true, this didn’t tell the full story. What I should have said was, “My nervous system isn’t compatible with the city-busy, workaholic lifestyle that prioritizes capitalism-driven ROI over human and more-than-human thriving.” I wanted to find another way of living and being that didn’t make me feel bad; that didn’t make the Earth feel bad. Turns out, I wasn’t alone in this sentiment—not by a long shot.
Link in bio to read more from RECOMMONING, a collaborative series with Dark Properties, where we search out a more open, collectively held world where, once again, land is held in common.
New on Are.na Editorial ** historian Elaine Ayers (@eayers0 ) talks with Willa Köerner (@willak ) about thinking like moss, reimagining our social order, and reorienting our attention.
This is an extension of our series Ecologies of Entanglement in collaboration with Dark Properties (@dark.properties )
It’s a good day to remind yourself to notice and appreciate the tender details of life. Link in bio to read today’s newsletter: An interview with farmer, artist, herbalist, and creator of @other.almanac , Ana Bessie Ratner (@anachron_ ) 🩵
In our last interview with @dark.properties , Willa Köerner (@willak ) interviews Cortney Cassidy (@garboslaughattacc ) about leaving her tech job to become a full-time gardener
https://www.are.na/editorial/growing-beyond-the-computer
New on Are.na Editorial **
An interview with Casey Tang (@casey_tang ) on forest gardening, complex systems, and mapping ecological design onto software methodologies.
https://www.are.na/editorial/embodying-an-ecological-framework
This interview is part of Ecologies of Entanglement, a collaborative series between Are.na Editorial and Dark Properties (@dark.properties )
New on Are.na Editorial**
Willa Köerner (@willak ) interviews Austin Wade Smith (@austin_wade_smith ) on subverting technological infrastructures to steward symbiotic relationships with the more-than-human world.
https://www.are.na/editorial/a-new-order-of-regenerative-kinship
This is the third in our collaborative series with Dark Properties (@dark.properties ), Ecologies of Entanglement, on networks and nature.
The latest from our series with Dark Properties (@dark.properties ) is an interview with Agnes Cameron (@agnes.cameron ) on satellite imagery and ways of seeing that go beyond the human eye
https://www.are.na/editorial/sensing-the-earth
