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Granola | Gracy Olmstead
a monthly newsletter about place, books, and community. Click to read Granola, by Gracy Olmstead, a Substack publication with thousands of readers. → Read More
Living Like Perennials
This is what living like a perennial should look like: having an attitude of longevity and love that fights against the consumerism of our age → Read More
Opinion | My Great-Grandfather Knew How to Fix America’s Food System
In the mutual aid and stewardship of an earlier generation of American farmers, there might be hope for our own communities. → Read More
How to Be Pro-Life in Our Real Lives
The Christian call to care for the vulnerable starts with facing the heightened needs in our own communities. → Read More
The Dignity and Grit of the Appalachian Hill Women
These are the stories about rural American regions we should be telling, with people and places worth emulating. → Read More
How de Tocqueville Saw Us in Crisis: Praiseworthy and Dangerous
We need solidarity and a common good now, not just liberal individualism. We're indebted to each other. → Read More
Our Monoculture Food Supply is a Potential Coronavirus Calamity
The highly consolidated system is fragile, and this is where local farming can step in. → Read More
Farming Isn't an Information Age Skill
Michael Bloomberg's ignorance of the craft is dead wrong, but his detractors miss something too. → Read More
How Political Parties Kill Our Commitment to the Good
Simeone Weil and Wendell Berry were right: there are ways to live a dedicated life without fealty to a label. → Read More
In Defense of Childhood Boredom
In a capitalist world that emphasizes efficiency, we've forgotten how to just be alone with ourselves. → Read More
'Impossible Whopper' Shouldn't Replace Your Hamburger
The meat industry is destructive, yes, but getting rid of animal husbandry altogether would kill the land. → Read More
The Best Books of 2019
A TAC author looks back at the year's finest reads on place, faith, and community. → Read More
Millennials Are Finding Religion, But Not at Church
Young Americans in search of meaning and fulfillment are finding it in other 'faiths.' → Read More
Trump Wants to Take From the Poor and Give to the Wealthy
The administration’s food stamp cuts expose the cruel truth of Republican hypocrisy. → Read More
Our Schools Can’t Solve the Problems of Our Rigid Workweek
Parents need better options for after-school care, but longer school days may not be the answer. → Read More
The Forgotten Treasure In Western Land
Will the arid West’s farms and settlements thrive for another century? Not if we don't take seriously John Wesley Powell's ideas. → Read More
Don’t Let Climate Change Stop You From Becoming a Parent
Yes, you should have children. And you should raise them to use their talents for the planet’s good. → Read More
Feasting Even During Ordinary Time
We've lost the cultural rhythms that come from a calendar of feasts—and the wonderful pleasures that they afford. → Read More
Parents Need Villages, Not Just Public Policies
American families are floundering for support. The church is a great place to start. → Read More
Seeding Control to Big Ag
Four firms now dominate the seed industry, diminishing diversity, crushing competition, and risking ecological disaster. → Read More