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Inside the author’s simple survival-model Earthship, which she shared with tropical plants like a banana (right) and papaya (left) tree.
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
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.
"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

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

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
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

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.
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

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.
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.
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...

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24 Sep 2019 | 12:03
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