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For our first Dark Kitchen dish: Simeon Ayres and Kate Long tell a heartening tale about baking sourdough loaves for their pandemic-struck hill community in Australia. With foraging and fermentation artwork by Pascal Baudar.

In the wake of COP27, James Roberts drives a scenic route down the Elan Valley in Wales into a poisoned landscape that holds the untold stories of a people who once toiled there.

Writer and herbalist Frieda Kipar Bay tells of fleeing fire in California to follow the trail of migrating forests, in search of a safe haven for her family.

Matt Sowerby contemplates the complicated legacies of John Ruskin and J. M. W. Turner in his home town, as Ruskin's View crumbles into the River Lune. Third in our series on land, culture and time.

Nathanael Bonnell re-examines the role of maps in the context of place, culture, colonialism and future-history and asks what will the new maps look like, and how will we create them?

Rohini Walker interprets the myth and meaning of 'the crone' – through a retelling of three encounters that take us from Kolkata's suburbs, down into the London Underground and out into California's starry desert night.

Cayte Bosler retraces the roads taken by pioneer US motorist Alice Ramsey, seeking what remains of the natural world in 'this strange age of technocratic fever dreams'

James Mcconachie considers the past, present and uncertain future of La España vaciada: Spain's hollowed-out interior, known for wildfires, hailstorms and abandoned dwellings.