the whole field
Crosshatch’s The Whole Field is a biweekly (meaning roughly every other week) human-written newsletter. You can sign up on our homepage to receive it regularly. We aim to provide engaging, thought-provoking content that’s worth your time.
We also envision this best as a collaborative work. If you have any suggestions, leads, questions, or feedback, please let us know through the form at the bottom of this page.
The Whole Field • Volume 1 • No. 16 • Super New Moon • December 23rd, 2022
In This Issue: Artists, Funding and Policy.
The Whole Field • Volume 1 • No. 15 • Full Moon • December 7th, 2022
In This Issue: The Food Sovereignty Symposium, Peace Pipeline, Cold Houses and Reading Books.
The Whole Field • Volume 1 • No. 14 • New Moon • November 23rd, 2022
In This Issue: Winter Pruning, Thanksgiving, “Enough”, the Growth Economy, and Sacred Profane.
The Whole Field • Volume 1 • No. 13 • Full Moon • Election Day • November 8th, 2022
In This Issue: four short quotes for election day
The Whole Field • Volume 1 • No. 12 • New Moon • October 25th, 2022
In This Issue: our first guest essayist makes a case for radical honesty.
The Whole Field • Volume 1 • No. 11 • Full Moon • October 9th, 2022
In This Issue: Tori Amos, Mid-90’s CD stores, a mercifully brief digression into eyebrow hairs, queering role-playing games, disability stuff
The Whole Field • Volume 1 • No. 10 • New Moon • September 25th, 2022
In This Issue: Smoked Beer, Alaskan Farming, Facilitated Conversation, Marxist Degrowth, and Patagonia.
The Whole Field • Volume 1 • No. 9 • Full Moon • September 10th, 2022
In This Issue: Michigan Worm Works, Starting a Small Business, Rural Creative Placemaking, and Real Organic.
The Whole Field • Volume 01 • No. 8 • New Moon • August 27th, 2022
In This Issue: Coppicing, Right-to-repair, Marbleseed, and Hedgerows.
The Whole Field • Volume 01 • No. 07 • Full Moon • August 11th, 2022
In This issue… David Coveyou's Geothermal Tour, Russian Natural Gas, Jean Pain’s Alternative Energy System, and “The Particularities of Place.”
The Whole Field • Volume 01 • Issue 06 • New Moon • July 28th, 2022
In This Issue: Brad writes about his inspiration for the title of this newsletter—the poem There Were No Mirrors in That Farmhouse by Molly Bashaw.
The Whole Field • Volume 01 • Issue 05 • Super Full Moon • July 13th, 2022
In This Issue: Plastic, Community, Recycling, Housing
The Whole Field • Volume 01 • Issue 04 • Micro New Moon • June 28th, 2022
In This Issue: Arrowhill Farm, Site Fertility, Old-Time Music, Great Lakes/Line 5
The Whole Field • Volume 01 • Issue 03 • Full Moon • June 14th, 2022
Greetings reader. At the time of writing, these past couple days have brought along a string of difficulties–our single car is out of commission, sleepless nights, and more that I won’t detail. An upside: times like these push us to consider, “Is there a better way?” Asking that question led me to the reflections in this volume’s essay, and the Warp explores other applications such as ways of doing things better in society, working with our hands, and curating our words.
The Whole Field • Volume 01 • Issue 02 • New Moon • May 30th, 2022
This second issue of The Whole Field continues our focus on Benzie County farms, with Bernie Ware musing on mushroom enterprises, the goal of beginning an old-growth forest, and what it means to live and die well in place. Watch the video—a poetic, philosophical 20-minute conversation and farm tour of Ware Far(m).
The Whole Field • Volume 01 • Issue 01 • Super Blood Moon • May 16th, 2022
In this inaugural volume we briefly consider the role of technology in our lives and work; first with a report of a rancher with a make-do philosophy, and then with some consideration of the techno-utopia—can we engineer our way to a better future?
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