Dispatch № 17s

What’s the Polish word for ‘beekeeping’?

At Lithuania’s first Mead Festival, the co-founder of the Polish-Lithuanian Beekeeping Brotherhood initiative reflects on the community-building and intercultural elements of the centuries-old tradition of honeymaking. In the pine forests

Is another kind of livestock farming possible?

How a Brazilian farm operating on land seized by the Movement of Landless Workers in the 1990s is pointing the way to an alternative to modern industrial-scale livestock farming. When

From behind the digital curtain

In Indonesia’s digital shadows, LGBTQ+ voices are being hacked, harassed and silenced – often with the law’s blessing. In the dark corners of Makassar’s digital sphere, where anonymity should be

Quiet guardians of Venice’s living waters

In this intimate portrait of the sandolo and the boatmen who preserve Venice’s oldest waterborne tradition, Carola Cappellari and Lavinia Nocelli explore its fading yet resilient legacy of craft, rhythm

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