Crop Stories
Exploring Food, Farming and Culture: Creatively sharing the stories that connect people and places through food and seeds.
Food and seeds are complicated. We want to enjoy and celebrate food, to respect cultures and cuisines, and to strive for deeper connection and compassion in our work. Crop Stories is an opportunity to take a deeper dive in the crops we eat.
Listen to the audio podcast companion to our print magazine under the same name, Crop Stories. We also host The Okra Pod Cast, and the Collard Story Corps.
A beautiful collection of essays, art, poetry, recipes, and lore. Purchase a physical copy of our annual Crop Stories journal to support the project, or read online.
We are beginning to work more with audio-visual story telling, sharing the stories of the people behind the crops.
Crop Stories: Peas
The latest issue of Crop Stories is focused on PEAS, specifically the African-origin pea known by various names such as field peas, African peas, southern peas, and cowpeas.
This print edition features some excellent writers, artists, and chefs, including recipes from Hardette Harris and Sandra Gutierrez, poetry by Marilyn Nelson, essays by Keia Mastrianni, Janisse Ray and Julia Chang, and artwork by Melissa DeSa and Naima Penniman (plus lots more).
64 Pages | Full Color | 9.5” x 7.5”
Editor: Cynthia Greenlee
Art Director: Talia Moore
Project Manager: Chris Smith
Resident Artist + Project Assistant: Melissa DeSa
Copy Editor: Carlynn Crosby
Meet The Publication Team
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Cynthia R. Greenlee
EDITOR
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TALIA MOORE
ART DIRECTOR
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Chris Smith
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
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Melissa DeSa
RESIDENT ARTIST + PROJECT ASSISTANT
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Carlynn Cosby
COPY EDITOR
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LuAnna Nesbitt
PROJECT MANAGER
The Okra Pod Cast
This is a podcast dedicated to okra, not just the pod, but the whole plant and the people it connects. It’s amazing where okra will take you, so join us as we explore okra in all its diversity, both in the garden and the kitchen, and maybe even on Mars!
There are currently 6 episodes, and it’s one of Chris Smith’s dreams to make more (when they invent cloning or time travel)!
collard story corps
Collard Story Corps brought together our work with Collard Atlas and the Heirloom Collard Project into a fun micro-story project with collard people across the Southeast. We are grateful for our collaboration with collard researcher (and many other things), Chris Keeve.
