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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.

Final post for Dark Kitchen: plant activist Mark Watson tracks a transformative journey into the lively world of cabbage leaves and microbes, in the company of maestro fermenter, Sandor Ellix Katz. 

In the wake of our new issue, 'Abyss', Joanna Guthrie charts a year's botanical voyage through the Norfolk waterlands threatened by a major roadbuilding project.

Latest in our 'Outbreak' series of reflections on the current pandemic, Harvye Hodja's modern meditation on mortality

Artist and walker, Monique Besten sows seeds in the track of revolutionary farmer philosopher Masanobu Fukuoka in the dry summer fields of Spain

From Dark Mountain 16 - REFUGE: Akshay Ahuja grapples with honeysuckle and other 'monsters' in times of ecological fall. With forest painting by Kate Williamson

This autumn from our Dark Kitchen: Ian M reports from a season spent working under the trees that have provided humans and other creatures with their bounty for millennia.

Follow Tamara Colchester as she goes into the woods to collect spring leaves from our wild medicine cabinet

Hierarchy Before capitalism, many of us who have descended from the nations of Europe have...