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. 10 • New Moon • May 19th, 2023
In This Issue: The Amish, Ramps and Foraging, and the Indigenous Food Sovereignty Symposium.
The Whole Field • Volume 2 • No. 9 • Full Moon • May 5th, 2023
In This Issue: Brad Kik shares the origin story of the new Crosshatch performance space The Alluvion, which has its roots in an older Crosshatch program. Further reflections on the role of art and artists fill the Warp, and of course a calendar of great May events fills the Weft! Read on!
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.”
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