“How do you create resilient lands, economies, and communities?” “How does what you wear represent what you stand for?” “How might different compost microbial communities affect soil health and productivity?” “How do we connect to each other: as one person to another, as a people to society, and as a society to various cultures?” “Can the soil microbiome be engineered?” “What if lenders had to consider soil as a depreciating asset?” “Where do we start, down to the microbe, to the soil, to get to that food sovereignty?” “Is resiliency a natural capacity or a learned behavior?” “How can our economic relationships mirror the transformative give-and-take relationships that happen every day in our ecological systems?” “How do we fix what a fire burned up?”
These questions comprise a mere handful of those posed by the writers, ranchers, farmers, and scientists gathered in the forty-fourth issue of Resilience. Their questions are practical: tested by science, by experience, and directed toward on-the-ground solutions. Their questions are also philosophical: sensitive to contradiction, to tensions between local knowledge and global interests, and to the complexity of our human spirit. Taken together, such inquiries attest to the specificity and scale of this issue’s tripartite theme: Microbes, Markets, and Climate.
Quivira’s annual publication started out as a printed newsletter and has served as a source for on-the-ground rangeland science, a place for stories and reflections from our community, and a resource on implementation of regenerative agriculture on working lands since the start of the organization. It has since morphed into a high-quality, professionally-designed and printed literary magazine that showcases poetry, written reflections, photography, artwork, and science writing that comes from those who are working or stewarding the land; very few of the contributors are professional writers, highlighting the lived experiences that they bring. If you’re interested in contributing to a future issue, please email communications@quiviracoalition.org.
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