Sacramento Bee
High Country News has long been one of our favorite publications; they consistently think in new terms about the West, but also about urban-rural and rural-international connections. Such a perspective continues with “In Rural Calif…
Tag Archives: rural international
Honey and Sustainability in Rural Nepal
Here is a new dispatch considering rural – international connections, where sustainability and food security meet, raising the
quality of life and illustrating to rural youth how prosperity could be
under their noses, or in the hive: Plan Interna…
Readings: Rural Traditions Sunk Into Eternal Oblivion
from The Farmer’s Year: A Calendar of Animal Husbandry; Clare Leighton, 1935
In our Readings
series, we offer selections from visual and printed texts that offer
perspectives, expand dialogues, and challenge assumptions. Today we feature the res…
The Tree That Bursts Through The Silo
Tree In Silo; Ken Wolf
Many thanks to María Arambula for sharing on our Arts and Culture Feed A.G. Sulzberger’s latest rural dispatch for The New York Times, “Amid Rural Decay, Trees Take Root in Silos.” The image of these trees bursting from dis…
Bringing The Yarn Bomb To The Country
[Editor’s Note: As I am facing numerous writing deadlines over the
second half of February, this seems like a good time to give a
retrospective glance to the first two years of Art of the Rural.
Over these weeks I will feature a few new articl…
The People Speak: New Work From Jetsonorama
Wheat paste of CJ at the Tuba City, AZ, rodeo grounds on fair day; Jetsonorama
Where else would you find a black guy applying wallpaper to the
outside of an outhouse at 7 in the morning at a rodeo on an indian
reservation? Only in Ameri…