Stewart, on vacation but nonetheless armed with camera and notebook, chats with a buffalo farm worker during an impromptu farm visit in Bulgaria. Land of roses and hard-baked resilience Years ago, if you’d asked me what I know about Bulgaria, I’d have said, “Not much. It’s in Eastern Europe, behind the Iron... Yonder 24 Aug 2023 | 03:37
Author Jennifer McGaha with puppy Homer. ( Photo by Avery McGaha) Ode to chiggers Despite the early hour, the air was already humid, and days of rain had left the bank slippery with rotting weeds and leaves.... Yonder 08 Jun 2023 | 02:56
J’avail Haltom and her four children are pictured in the off-grid homestead of the book’s creative stylist, Lena Masur, in Upstate New York where the book was photographed. ( Allison Usavage) Sugar season meets snack time In New York’s maple-sugaring region, early spring brings the flow of sap, and my family has blissfully indulged in this gift.... Yonder 24 Feb 2023 | 10:54
Inside the author’s simple survival-model Earthship, which she shared with tropical plants like a banana (right) and papaya (left) tree. ( Janell Togno) More than a hippie hobbit house I’m forever a Jersey girl at heart, but I moved to Colorado in 2014 to pursue an education. After graduating Colorado Mountain... Yonder 09 Jan 2023 | 02:22
Geralyn Ritter, 47, Whitehouse, NJ, grimaces as she holds an 8 lb weighted ball and twists back and forth during physical therapy May 1, 2016, almost one year after surviving the May 12, 2015 Amtrak train #188 crash in Philadelphia. Ritter, a corporate lawyer and mother of three boys, was the most severely injured survivor of the crash. She has not been able to return to work yet. CLEM MURRAY ( Clem Murray) After catastrophe, the path back to joy After something awful has happened, how do you go back to feeling safe again? The pain and fear had subsided and been shallowly... Yonder 27 Sep 2022 | 02:31
"Canopy Meg" built her career studying tropical forest canopies arounf the world. Now a professor at New College in Sarasota, Florida, she designed and organized the construction of a canopy walkway and tower through the palm-oak hammock in Myakka State Park. ( Carlton Ward Jr. ) The last unexplored continent Ready, set, fire. My jerry-rigged slingshot propelled its fishing line and lead weight up and over a high, sturdy branch... Yonder 28 Jun 2022 | 12:51
The antithesis of Big Food: Egg Club “How about we start a subscription club?” I suggested to Sandra. “We could invite locals to sign up for a weekly box, delivered... Yonder 10 Mar 2022 | 10:53
Overwintering December 21, one of the two great calendar dates. People throughout the Northern Hemisphere celebrate this benchmark in different... Yonder 09 Feb 2022 | 12:37
Houskeeper and Scott Weis on their 358-mile trek from Manhattan to Albany ( Heather Houskeeper) Love in the time of ant-bite pustules Birdsong trickled through the stillness — a sure sign that the rains had passed. Unzipping the door revealed clear blue skies... Yonder 08 Apr 2021 | 11:08
Nouveau country Late last winter, my husband and I purchased an old house in Warwick, a cozy Depression-era Cape Cod on an acre of property.... Yonder 23 Dec 2020 | 10:20
A squirrel at the bird feeder rigged above a Havahart trap. The author developed a Rube Goldberg strategy, using the bird feeders to seed the squirrel traps. ( Dan Greenwald) When rodents crash your quarantine: Relocate or exterminate? Last March 5th, two days after my kids’ school in the Bronx shut its doors, I arrived at The Farm with the family to quarantine.... Yonder 25 Nov 2020 | 11:46
The moon and me Scrolling through Facebook one morning, I read that that night’s moon was going to be the biggest and brightest of the year!... Yonder 01 Sep 2020 | 03:31
Carvel Farrell’s farm in his hometown of Bovina, NY. ( Lisa Candela) When city folk go rural It’s not a new phenomenon. People who have urban centered lives have always sought to balance that out by escaping to the... Yonder 09 Jun 2020 | 01:18
The author leading her class in stretching. ( METAdrasi) The other Greece When I was a child, Yiayia, my grandmother, would feed us homemade tiropites, spanikopites and countless stories from her... Home 24 Sep 2019 | 12:03
