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 2 • No. 8 • New Moon • April 20th, 2023
In This Issue: Wild Blue Yonder, Woodcock, Integrated Systems and Legacy, and Land Back.
The Whole Field • Volume 2 • No. 7 • Full Moon • April 6th, 2023
In This Issue: A Q&A with Jamie John, The Alluvion, and Land Back.
The Whole Field • Volume 2 • No. 6 • New Moon • March 21st, 2023
In This Issue: A tribute to Randy Bond via Poetry and the Long Memory Project, Civil Disobedience, and Citizenship.
The Whole Field • Volume 2 • No. 5 • Full Moon • March 7th, 2023
In This Issue: Maple Tapping, Sour Sap, Good Design, and Seed Swapping.
The Whole Field • Volume 2 • No. 4 • Super New Moon • February 20th, 2023
In This Issue: Data Centers, Practices, Home Renovation, and Cities.
The Whole Field • Volume 2 • No. 3 • Micro Full Moon • February 5th, 2023
In This Issue: Mining/Data, Lithium in Bolivia/Nevada, New Era Detroit, and Revitalize or Die.
The Whole Field • Volume 2 • No. 2 • Super New Moon • January 21st, 2023
In This Issue: Resourcefulness, Lagoon Crawlers, and Deep Bedding.
The Whole Field • Volume 2 • No. 1 • Micro Full Moon • January 6th, 2023
In This Issue: Practices of Renewal, Care, What’s Possible, and Post-Industrial Art
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
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