Renkl offers observations on the world surrounding her suburban Nashville home

She had already spent a decade travelling through China

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She invokes rootedness as a way of being in concert with the wilderness—and wildness—that sustains humans and all of life

Mimi bakes sourdough and cooks super-seasonal goods in the farm kitchen which is sold to the local community from their farm store

The Life and Death of a Minke Whale in the Amazon - Dispatches from the Brazilian Rainforest Eldred Wormwood Renkl offers observations on theAs the Amazon burns, Fabio Zuker shares stories of resistance, self determination, and kinship with the land. In 2007, a seven ton minke whale was found stranded on the banks of the Tapajos River, hundreds of miles into the Amazon rainforest. For days, environmentalists, journalists, and locals followed the lost whale, hoping to guide her back to the ocean, but ultimately proved unable to save her. Ten years later, journalist Fabio Zuker travels to