Southern Legends · The Land

The Land

I used to farm here. These are the people who still do: farmers, gardeners, market vendors, and the ones building a life from the ground up.

14 pieces so far.

Redbird Willow Farm, 1103 Lenlock Lane, Anniston, Alabama

The Farm at the End of the Hard Thing

Michele Hornsby · Anniston, Alabama

Samuel Sawyer at the farmers market with mushrooms and tinctures at the Aquality Farms booth

A NEW WAY OF
GROWING

Aquality Farms · Anniston, Alabama

Essays

Working the beds at the Headley flower farm, Alabama.

Eliot Coleman and Jean-Martin Fortier Proved a Small Farm Could Pay

July 28, 2026 · 5 min read

Ranunculus at the Headley flower farm, Alabama.

Erin Benzakein Made the Flower Farm Possible Again

July 28, 2026 · 7 min read

I'm Writing a Book About the Land. And the People Who Perform It.

July 28, 2026 · 2 min read

I Collected Farmers Before I Ever Kept a Farm

July 28, 2026 · 3 min read

The Willow Tree They Planted Where He Died

July 23, 2026 · 8 min read

Free range chickens on pasture. Photo: USDA / CC0

I Watched a Man Explain Chickens to Me for Twenty-Two Minutes

July 21, 2026 · 4 min read

Barbara Brown Taylor Left the Parish and Went to the Farm

July 21, 2026 · 5 min read

I Wrote Joel Salatin a Letter

July 21, 2026 · 3 min read

I Wrote Justin Rhodes a Letter

July 21, 2026 · 3 min read

Joel Salatin at Polyface Farm. Photo: Wikipedia Commons / CC BY-SA

Joel Salatin Is What Happens When Wendell Berry Gets a Megaphone

July 21, 2026 · 5 min read

Justin Rhodes. Homesteader, author, YouTube filmmaker.

Justin Rhodes Went Back to His Grandfather's Land

July 21, 2026 · 4 min read

July 16, 2026 · 7 min read

Everything Is Running Under the Same Shape

I grew up behind a Walmart. One world ran on six crops. The other ran on ten thousand. It took me thirty years to find the through-line.

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