I’m reading Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible by Ellen Davis. In the book she argues that agrarian perspectives offer a helpful lens through which to understand the ...

Soil and the future of creation. Take up a handful of soil and you will hold a miracle?the possibility of life, the product of death. Generations of plants and animals lie in a handful. Hundreds, even ...

The Paradise of God: Renewing Religion in an Ecological Age The Paradiseof God: RenewingReligion inan EcologicalAge Norman Wirzba Oxford Univ. Press 240 pp; $37.50 Take up a handful of soil and you ...

On a recent Saturday at the Little Jubba Central Maine Agrarian Commons, Ali Hamsa and Muhidin Libah took a break from building a fence around a goat pasture to share a laugh at the orneriest kid in ...

On the back of a tractor once green but since mostly rusted, Steve Wolfe pushed a 1920s engine to full steam and pulled a chain to signal the start of work. "Boy, that's a nice whistle!" his father, ...

Grapevine is paying tribute to its agrarian roots and cotton farming with this bronze statue titled “Choppin’ Cotton.” The sculpture is located in Nash Farm, a living history farm where Grapevine’s ...

The Graniteville Mill was built in 1845 and was the South’s first cotton mill in what would become known as Graniteville. Provided photo/The Greenville News Given the South’s deep agrarian culture and ...

In the longest-running debate on human behavior, nature and nurture have been duking it out for over a century, with nature getting an awful lot of decisions in the past decade or two. Now comes ...

Keller Court Commons is a 'pocket neighborhood' that developers say is designed as an innovative, sustainable community-oriented urban infill project. It is located five blocks from historic downtown ...