dark kitchen

Making Friends With Microbes A conversation with Eva Bakkeslett ‘Is it safe to eat?’ I...

The summer the visitors flock from the cities to the sandy lands: the children run...

The Dark Mountain bookshop has a pair of stellar issues on offer this month.   Issue...

Writing from a community farm near Jackson, Mississippi, Paul Rankin wonders what it might mean to ‘reconsecrate’ a place after its degradation.

Final post in this Dark Kitchen online sister series running alongside our latest book, Jonny Randall draws connections between bodily and planetary health, exploring restorative practices not only for our individual bodies but the soil we all depend on.

Originally published in 'Dark Mountain: Issue 20 - ABYSS'. This latest post in our Dark Kitchen series is an extract from 'Greyhound', a current work in progress by Joanna Pocock, as she travels through the land of industrial beef production in the Texas panhandle.

This month we are running a 'sister' series of Dark Kitchen posts, alongside our latest issue. To begin, Fred Warren tackles one of the most controversial aspects of the modern industrial food complex, ultra processed foods (UPFs). With compost artwork by Graeme Walker.