I. I. Mother’s Hearth Heading northwest from Lijiang Old Town past Lashi Lake, the distant peaks of the Yulong and Haba mountains gleam silver-white, our journey threading through the high river valleys alongside the Jinsha River. Mid-October marks the transition between autumn harvest and winter planting. Though the land along…
In 2015, by chance, I found myself in a co-housing community in southern Germany, where I first encountered organic farming. Afterwards, I worked at three organic farms in succession, initially as a volunteer and later as an agricultural apprentice with Demeter im Norden. All told, I spent three years working…


