Seeds have shaped culture and biodiversity, but corporate control now threatens them as farmers and Indigenous communities fight to protect seed sovereignty.
Essays
Phil Taylor, Mad Ag co-founder and CEO, reflects on land, water, and people through time spent together on farms, grounding the work in lived experience.
After a chance encounter with a fawn on an island off the coast of Vancouver, photographer Chiara Zonca began a journey of healing, belonging, and reconnection.
As HB4 wheat expands across Argentina, farmers and Indigenous communities fight to protect seed sovereignty, biodiversity, and the right to save seed.
For 100 days each spring, five young shearers cross 400 farms in 12 states, documenting the grit, joy, and community behind a disappearing way of life
Days on End follows Cornwall’s last traditional oyster fishery, where slow work, sail, and stewardship reveal a timeless relationship between people and place.
Phil Taylor reflects on the choices that shape our relationship with land, seed and plants, asking us to see how we do the work as the work itself.
Queer farmers across the American West are building new relationships with land, labor, and community, quietly making up new rules as they go.