pandemic

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.

Writer Salena Godden battles with snails and against the odds creates a jewel garden in the dark hour of the pandemic. Then learns that the voracious creatures were not in fact the enemy but her mysterious allies.

New for the walking series: Ben Kilbourne heads into the Mazatzal Wilderness of central Arizona on the edge of a pandemic.

Sharon English encounters a 'radiant spirit of the New Year' en route to the Humber River in Canada and contemplates the dark and solitary places we go to in times of descent.

As the lockdown eases in many countries, our Outbreak series reflects on the uncertainty and turmoil of a post-pandemic world.  Tom Walsh reports from the cliff edge in California.

Latest in our Outbreak series on the global pandemic and its aftershocks, Dawid Jussarak reports from an empty university, in China, Michael McLane from a New Zealand small town

This week in the second 'palimpsest' of short pieces for our Outbreak series, Juhi Saklani watches the birds in India; Tom Smith watches history repeat itself in the Czech Republic.

Akshay Ahuja interviews the writer and activist, Charles Eisenstein about how we might navigate a radical shift in our inner and outer worlds.

New twist on our Outbreak series: a 'palimpsest' of pieces from around the world. Today we hear from Joanna Pocock in London and Austin Jepsky in Pittsburgh, USA

Nick Hunt brings you the third in our series of reflections on the coronavirus pandemic