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Cascadia Works: Tend, Gather, Harvest, Restore includes poetry and prose by more than 120 contributors who work the land and sea of the Cascadia bioregion. Edited by Tele Aadsen and Jessica Gigot, a Southeast Alaska salmon troller and a Skagit Valley farmer, respectively, it features a diverse range of voices, from orchard workers, farmers, commercial fishers, and field biologists to kelp harvesters, herring protectors, and watershed restorationists. Together, this collection creates a moving, powerful portrait of those with deep connections to the land and sea that sustain us and calls for reciprocity and wisdom in how we care for and steward Cascadia.
“This various, marvelous collection is special because these writers have done the labor of land and sea—they have farmed, fished, hunted, gardened, tended, gathered, and more—and they are also able to put that into words in unforgettable ways. From callused hands and sore backs, these poems and essays come glittering like light on sea water, like mica specking turned earth, as they reveal the extraordinary bond with place that is formed when humans do the physical work of the world.” —Derek Sheffield, Washington State Poet Laureate, poetry editor of Terrain.org, and coauthor of Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry
Cascadia Works: Tend, Gather, Harvest, Restore includes poetry and prose by more than 120 contributors who work the land and sea of the Cascadia bioregion. Edited by Tele Aadsen and Jessica Gigot, a Southeast Alaska salmon troller and a Skagit Valley farmer, respectively, it features a diverse range of voices, from orchard workers, farmers, commercial fishers, and field biologists to kelp harvesters, herring protectors, and watershed restorationists. Together, this collection creates a moving, powerful portrait of those with deep connections to the land and sea that sustain us and calls for reciprocity and wisdom in how we care for and steward Cascadia.
“This various, marvelous collection is special because these writers have done the labor of land and sea—they have farmed, fished, hunted, gardened, tended, gathered, and more—and they are also able to put that into words in unforgettable ways. From callused hands and sore backs, these poems and essays come glittering like light on sea water, like mica specking turned earth, as they reveal the extraordinary bond with place that is formed when humans do the physical work of the world.” —Derek Sheffield, Washington State Poet Laureate, poetry editor of Terrain.org, and coauthor of Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry