The New Farmer’s Almanac, Vol. 7: PREMONITION
As a literary journal powered by farmers, for farmers, with farmers—in daily relation with the living world, Vol. 7 is called PREMONITION. Literature, as in dreamworld, allows our human psyches to sort, unfold and reorganize memories and meaning. Evolutionary life, learning from extremity, unfolds with inspiration, trembles towards survival. We are earth-bound beings tuned to a world wide web of soil.
Printed in full color for the first time, this Almanac challenges us to share our premonitions and respond to narratives of inevitability: what transmissions we are receiving from the living world?
100+ new works by:
farmers • artists • activists • organizers
journalists • storytellers • poets
teachers • scholars • scientists • chefs
Contributors to Volume 7 include Bridget Huber, Douglas W. Milliken, Saleh Saad, Jacqueline Suskin, Tusha Yakovelva, Gina Rae La Cerva, Mél Hogan and Jacqueline Jenkins, Sheryll Durant, Lucas Farrell, DJ White, Zöe Wonfor and April Martin, Alexis Iammarino, Sarah Ryhanen, Ellie Irons, Georgia Julius and many more!
speculative • fiction • basket weaving • humor • the cloud • saltmarsh grasses • archaic divination • poetry • farming in palestine • prairie strips • collectives • the lives of insects • DIY tutorials • "Good Days" calendar • lunar calendar • re-Worlding • salamagundy
Inside these pages, connect with our long human history of standing on the earth, of working in the earth, of observing, relating, adapting ourselves in a world of ever-learning aliveness. We humans have ordered our ethno-botany, our culture, our horticulture, our agriculture, and our civics through the making of meaning in relationship with terrestrial spaces. A world alive with emblems, forebearers, teachers—long before empires and plantations and predictive algorythms—we reacted to landscape signals, moved on our feet across continents. We are ancient humans who dream, who sense, whose ears are tuned to the whispers and transmissions of evolutionary life. We have followed stars and kelp highways across the vast Pacific. We held songlines the length and breadth of tropics and deserts. We have followed impulses, our versions of sacred, shamanic inspiration. We call these habits taste and tradition.
