Volume III, Issue 2

Spring 2017

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PUBLISHER'S NOTE

Publisher’s Note

by Jon Andelson

EDITOR'S NOTE

Editor’s Note

by Mark Baechtel

INFOGRAPHIC

What is the Prairie?

by Cecilia Bergman

SHORT STORY

Dead Gun

by Sandy Moffett

Drawings

by Tara Shukla

MIXED MEDIA

Cure

by Lee Emma Running

ESSAY

My Growth at Mustard Seed Community Farm

by Tristan Aschittino

A Shared Heritage: Preserving Genetic Diversity and Cultural Traditions through Seed Saving

by Toby Cain

INTERVIEW

A Syrian-American’s Experience in the Midwest An Interview with Boraan Abdulkarim.

by Boraan Abdulkarim, Miriam Tibbetts

Interview conducted by Miriam Tibbetts

Obedience and Resistance

by John Lawrence Hanson

Bracing Her Feet: Chris Gaunt and A Life of Activism

by Chris Gaunt, Tapiwa Zvidzwa

Roots Talk! Episode 1 A Podcast Interview with Bill Stowe, CEO of the Des Moines Water Works

by Bill Stowe, Noah Herbin

Nostalgia, the Nineteenth Century, and the House Next Door

by Will Fellows

Chore Boots, Checkbooks and Chalkboards Women Alternative Farmers and the Fourth Paradigm of Agriculture

by Sophie Neems

Mushrooms in the Midwest An Interview with Glen Schwartz and Dave Layton

by Glen Schwartz, Dave Layton, Sonia Chukla

The Pines in Concert Above the Prairie

by Kelly Hansen Maher

The Making of the Midwestern Prairie Plant Migration and Climate Change

by Thomas Rosburg

Ekphrasis* on the Prairie

Benjamin and Therese Brosseau

Birds of the Prairie