When I moved to Ashland, I arrived full of experiences and memories of growing up in the big city and working at large institutions of higher education. Yet, here I was, open-minded and open-hearted, in the smallest town I’d ever lived (by far) and employed at the smallest college for which I’d ever worked (by…
This weekend I picked up environmental journalist Amanda Little’s new book, The Fate of Food: What We’ll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World. She details the difficult decisions we in the food world are grappling with regarding food access and sustainability in the face of climate change. Little traveled the world meeting people at…
The stories we tell about who we are—and who others are—inform our most foundational understandings of the world and our place in it. When we turn on the morning news, scroll through our Facebook newsfeed, or pick up our local newspaper, what stories are being told about the places we live? Nationwide, one-fifth of all…
