
Community Stories

Inside Yakutat Surf Club’s budding stoke scene in Southeast Alaska.

Patagonia and Pop-Up Magazine Productions present a series about knowledge.

Patagonia and Pop-Up Magazine Productions present a series about knowledge.

Patagonia and Pop-Up Magazine Productions present a series about knowledge.

A conversation between Lor Sabourin and Madaleine Sorkin.

A former city kid finds answers and empowerment in nature.

The South Pacific has a plastic problem. He had a truck.

The remarkable relationship between Hidetoshi Matsubara and his birds of prey.

When your goal is to raise children in wild places, it helps if you’re flexible.

Shawn Hayes leads a life of devotion. For him, falconry is more than a deep partnership with raptors: it’s his life’s work.

Teresa Baker, Pattie Gonia, José González and Gabaccia Moreno bring a new initiative to the outdoor community.

Out of necessity, Jacqueline Sangueza loved fishing nets before she loved the ocean.

First-generation Vietnamese American Mai Nguyen follows in the footsteps of their agrarian ancestors with a farm that grows numerous types of grains with a no-till, anti-fertilizer regenerative approach.

The story of Naelyn Pike, a 21-year-old Chiricahua Apache, and her fight to keep sacred Apache land from becoming a copper mine.

Cydney Knapp and her husband, Bartek, knew they wanted to raise their kids to love the outdoors, so they learned how to navigate change and embraced the chaos.

Under the gaze of southern Arizona’s cinnamon-hued Canelo Hills, a mother passes along an ancient Puebloan tradition of natural adobe building to her three sons.

How a mother’s own childhood experience on the Appalachian Trail shaped the way she teaches her four children to find nature in the heart of New York City.

Why a logging protest has become Canada’s largest act of civil disobedience.

Rolling Stone called him “the real Indiana Jones.” His new memoir reveals why our friend Rick has always been a great deal more.

What’s the secret to a really good pair of jeans? Comics journalist Sarah Mirk tells us what to look for and how to keep them in play longer.

When it comes to making more responsible jeans, our work is never done. And, of course, we leave the really dirty work to you.

The father and son team behind Life Do Grow farm has focused their life’s work on building a sense of community and well-being in an area that has been plagued by poverty, violence and neglect for decades.

As the old-growth logging crisis heats up in Canada, a photographer goes searching for trees to save them.

Ashe and Christin Brown are parents to their 3-year-old daughter, Quest, whom they want to raise with an appreciation for the diversity of the natural world.

What if we could pass our love of a certain place through generations?

Caroline Gleich grapples with the fears that come with an aging parent and the pressure she feels to have a child before her dad is gone.

Nearly every Wednesday, Courtney Reynolds can be found elbow-deep in a bin of someone else’s castoffs, searching for scraps of fabric and colorful quilts to deconstruct and sew into original clothing items for her three preschool-age kids, or to sell in her online shop, Napkin Apocalypse.

We’re entering Earth’s sixth mass extinction, but clues about this climate crisis could be right under our feet.

A book excerpt about how the microbes within us and the genes we share with other wild creatures are key dimensions of being human.