The Next Plateau

How Two Years of Mowing, Digging, Fighting Permits, Hauling Trash, Learning Machines, and Caring for This Land Changed Me Forever

There is a very particular kind of intimacy that develops between a woman and a piece of land when she has spent years tending to it almost entirely alone, because eventually the relationship stops resembling ownership at all and begins to feel much more like nurturing, devotion, observation, and an ongoing conversation between herself and the earth ben…