Workwear Stories
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.
In San Luis Obispo, California, a team of bakers is building community by “pedaling” their wares.
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.
Patagonia has 73 styles using hemp this season. Cultivation of hemp replenishes vital soil nutrients, prevents erosion and requires no synthetic fertilizer.
A colorful tradition of building and running Grand Canyon dory boats is passed to the next generation.
Nicholas Herrera brings new life to old things on his ancestral homestead in El Rito, New Mexico.
On a small farm outside Minneapolis, Minnesota, a farmer takes a regenerative approach to keeping his community fed.
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.
In Western Apacheria, a tradition of cooking in the ground endures.
Women make up less than five percent of US carpenters by trade. Some tradeswomen are changing the narrative, one dovetail joint at a time.
This story was supposed to be about a thriving, women-led organic farm in Maine. Then came news of the ”forever chemicals.”
Two Patagonia styles this season use bison hide. Grazing bison help restore prairie ecosystems, whereas grazing cattle can damage native grasses.
In 2019, after a record Colorado avalanche season bulldozed millions of trees, a team of avalanche experts rallied to collect as much information as possible from these 300-year-old keepers of time.
A bona fide American hemp farmer/entrepreneur shares his stash.
Some farmers, anglers and chefs are providing food for their communities during the time of COVID-19.
Making face masks in the time of COVID-19: when “breathable face fabric” takes on a whole new meaning.
Doing the Dirty Work with the Oregon Natural Desert Association
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…
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…
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…
Como la séptima generación de su familia en cultivar la misma tierra, trabajar desde el alba al ocaso es algo natural para Heather Darby. El cuarto perfil en la serie Workwear le da una mirada al movimiento perpetuo que se requiere para ser, por un lado una agrónoma investigadora en la Universidad de Vermont y,…
El apellido de Mike Wood es una total coincidencia de nacimiento. Tiene un fetiche por la madera. Cuando construyó su obra maestra, una casa hecha de troncos desconectada de la red eléctrica, en los bancos del río Susitna en Alaska, exploró el bosque boreal que lo rodeaba, seleccionó cada árbol, los abrazó en solemne ceremonia…
Only 4 percent of US farm owners are Hispanic. Mexican immigrant and organic farmer Javier Zamora is working to change the narrative.
A bona fide American hemp farmer and entrepreneur shares his stash—a guide to farming hemp with tips for planting, growing, harvesting and processing.
A road trip through California’s worst drought in 1,200 years, and the folks working to restore broken ecosystems and rewild lost landscapes.