Field notes
Notes from the field.
Short dispatches from our coordinators, volunteers and partner villages — the good weeks and the hard ones.
Featured · Community kitchens · Oct 2026
The Thursday soup that kept a street together.
When the bakery on Orchard Row closed, two retired neighbours started cooking on Thursdays. Three winters later, the kitchen feeds forty households.
Leyla Aras, field coordinator · 6 min read
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Land · Sep 2026
What survives a dry summer
Year-two counts on the northern ridge came in at 81%. Which species held on, and which we’re replacing.
Learning · Aug 2026
The night Selma read the bus timetable aloud
A small moment from an Open Pages circle that explains the program better than any report.
Water · Jul 2026
Who holds the key to the pump?
Why every Wellspring point is run by a household committee — and what happens when one falls apart.
Rivers · Jun 2026
Nine towns, one river, 4.2 tonnes
A spring clean-up that finally reached the source: the upstream waste route.
Community · May 2026
Notes from the spring seed swap
Three hundred envelopes, forty varieties and one very old bean nobody could name.
Method · Apr 2026
How we count a tree
A walk through our survival audit, tag by tag, with the team that does it.
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