Workwear Stories
Industrial hemp is a crop that has the potential to lower the environmental impacts of textile production, empower small-scale farmers and create jobs in a wide variety of industries. Two non-profit groups, Fibershed and Growing Warriors, are working to reintroduce industrial hemp into Kentucky—and eventually U.S. agriculture.
Forest and river restoration work fueled by a love for wild salmon.
As the seventh generation of her family to farm the same land, working from sunup to sundown comes naturally to Heather Darby. The fourth profile in our Workwear series takes a look at the perpetual motion required to be both a research agronomist at the University of Vermont and the backbone of a 200-year-old, certified…
Mike Wood’s last name is a wholly appropriate coincidence of birth. He’s got a fetish for the stuff. When building his off-the-grid log home masterpiece on the banks of Alaska’s Susitna River, he’d range out into the surrounding boreal forest, select each perfect tree, hug it at the chest in solemn ceremony and then gleefully…
Editor’s note: This post discusses anxiety and suicide. In a humble workshop in Washougal, Washington, a blind craftsman holds a locally harvested log that he has made into a blank with his miter saw. He turns it in his hands to feel its shape and weight. He measures and marks, measures and marks. A flick…
A bona fide American hemp farmer and entrepreneur shares his stash—a guide to farming hemp with tips for planting, growing, harvesting and processing.
Ensuciándose las manos con la asociación del desierto natural de Oregón
Fabricar mascarillas en época de COVID-19: cuando las “telas respirables" adquieren un significado completamente nuevo.
Some farmers, anglers and chefs are providing food for their communities during the time of COVID-19.
En 2019, después de una temporada récord de avalanchas en Colorado que arrasó con millones de árboles, un equipo de expertos en avalanchas se congregó para recoger la mayor cantidad de información posible de estos guardianes del tiempo de más 300 años.
Patagonia has 73 styles using hemp this season. Cultivation of hemp replenishes vital soil nutrients, prevents erosion and requires no synthetic fertilizer.
La colorida tradición de construir y navegar los clásicos botes dory, en el Gran Cañón, se transmite a la próxima generación.
Who made the first hammer, the thing that’s used to make other things? For blacksmiths, it starts with the forge—and it’s hammers all the way down.
Two Patagonia styles this season use bison hide. Grazing bison help restore prairie ecosystems, whereas grazing cattle can damage native grasses.
On a small farm outside Minneapolis, Minnesota, a farmer takes a regenerative approach to keeping his community fed.
Nicholas Herrera brings new life to old things on his ancestral homestead in El Rito, New Mexico.
In Colorado’s San Luis Valley, worsening drought is causing farmers to face the prospect of losing their livelihoods. Two farmers are placing their bets on a drought-tolerant crop—industrial hemp.
In Colorado’s San Luis Valley, two farmers are growing industrial hemp to improve their topsoil—and their bottom line—as they face worsening drought.
Rock-climber blade techs keep the wind turbines turning, with gusto.
Solo el 4 por ciento de los dueños de granjas en los Estados Unidos son hispanos. Javier Zamora, inmigrante mexicano y agricultor orgánico, está trabajando por cambiar esa historia.
How can Hispanic farmworkers become farm owners? For Mexican immigrant Javier Zamora, the sunup to sundown work ethic was already there—he just needed some support from his community.
How can an organic farmer with no successor make sure the farm will end up in good hands? Paul Bickford started his search in an unexpected place.
In San Luis Obispo, California, a team of bakers is building community by “pedaling” their wares.
Learning to coexist with the wild in Montana’s Tom Miner Basin.
Under the gaze of southern Arizona’s cinnamon-hued Canelo Hills, a mother passes along an ancient Puebloan tradition of natural adobe building to her three sons.
In Western Apacheria, a tradition of cooking in the ground endures.
Las mujeres son menos del cinco por ciento de los carpinteros de oficio en los Estados Unidos. Pero hay algunas carpinteras que están cambiando esa narrativa, una juntura a la vez.
Esta historia se iba a tratar de una boyante granja orgánica en Maine liderada por una mujer, pero entonces apareció la noticia sobre los “químicos permanentes”.
Un viaje a través de la peor sequía en California en 1.200 años junto a quienes trabajan por restaurar ecosistemas destruidos y repoblar paisajes perdidos.
A look inside Delta Brick & Climate Company, where doing is undoing.
El arquitecto y escalador Dylan Johnson se une a Yvon Chouinard y un comprometido equipo de trabajo para construir dos casas usando fardos de paja.
En el condado de Warren, Carolina del Norte, un agricultor afroamericano está cultivando cáñamo industrial para ayudar a que su granja centenaria siga prosperando por al menos 100 años más.
A family in Maine reimagines a future for working waterfronts that puts back more than it takes.