Histoires Workwear

Two Patagonia styles this season use bison hide. Grazing bison help restore prairie ecosystems, whereas grazing cattle can damage native grasses.

A 50-year odyssey.

A look inside Delta Brick & Climate Company, where doing is undoing.

A road trip through California’s worst drought in 1,200 years, and the folks working to restore broken ecosystems and rewild lost landscapes.

This story was supposed to be about a thriving, women-led organic farm in Maine. Then came news of the ”forever chemicals.”

Women make up less than five percent of US carpenters by trade. Some tradeswomen are changing the narrative, one dovetail joint at a time.

In Western Apacheria, a tradition of cooking in the ground endures.

A Puebloan tradition is passed to the next generation.

Learning to coexist with the wild in Montana’s Tom Miner Basin.

In San Luis Obispo, California, a team of bakers is building community by “pedaling” their wares.

How can an organic farmer with no successor make sure the farm will end up in good hands? Paul Bickford started his search in an unexpected place.

Only 4 percent of US farm owners are Hispanic. Mexican immigrant and organic farmer Javier Zamora is working to change the narrative.

Rock-climber blade techs keep the wind turbines turning, with gusto.

In Colorado’s San Luis Valley, two farmers are growing industrial hemp to improve their topsoil—and their bottom line—as they face worsening drought.

Nicholas Herrera brings new life to old things on his ancestral homestead in El Rito, New Mexico.

On a small farm outside Minneapolis, Minnesota, a farmer takes a regenerative approach to keeping his community fed.

Who made the first hammer, the thing that’s used to make other things? For blacksmiths, it starts with the forge—and it’s hammers all the way down.

Patagonia has 73 styles using hemp this season. Cultivation of hemp replenishes vital soil nutrients, prevents erosion and requires no synthetic fertilizer.

A colorful tradition of building and running Grand Canyon dory boats is passed to the next generation.

Some farmers, anglers and chefs are providing food for their communities during the time of COVID-19.

Making face masks in the time of COVID-19: when “breathable face fabric” takes on a whole new meaning.

A bona fide American hemp farmer/entrepreneur shares his stash.

In 2019, after a record Colorado avalanche season bulldozed millions of trees, a team of avalanche experts rallied to collect as much information as possible from these 300-year-old keepers of time.

Editor’s note: This post discusses anxiety and suicide. In a humble workshop in Washougal, Washington, a blind craftsman holds a locally harvested log that he has made into a blank with his miter saw. He turns it in his hands to feel its shape and weight. He measures and marks, measures and marks. A flick…

Doing the Dirty Work with the Oregon Natural Desert Association

Mike Wood’s last name is a wholly appropriate coincidence of birth. He’s got a fetish for the stuff. When building his off-the-grid log home masterpiece on the banks of Alaska’s Susitna River, he’d range out into the surrounding boreal forest, select each perfect tree, hug it at the chest in solemn ceremony and then gleefully…

As the seventh generation of her family to farm the same land, working from sunup to sundown comes naturally to Heather Darby. The fourth profile in our Workwear series takes a look at the perpetual motion required to be both a research agronomist at the University of Vermont and the backbone of a 200-year-old, certified…

Forest and river restoration work fueled by a love for wild salmon. For British Columbia’s timber barons, the forests of Vancouver Island were too rich to resist: giant spruce, fir and red cedar trees that fetched top dollar on the open market. On the island’s remote and rain-soaked Pacific coast, mechanized logging kicked into high…