If soil could speak, 'unprecedented' would not be in its vocabulary.
Issue #01
Arise and Shine / 2021
Featuring a range of voices, views and ideas, the inaugural issue of Wonderground focuses on questions of transformation. Change is both constant and challenging, scary and stimulating and it feels fitting to start a new print journal, and a new year, exploring this topic.
David Godshall chats with tree death-walker Jeff Perry.
Ideas of legacy, transformation and love with regenerative farmer and author Charles Massy and his daughter Tanya.
Writing and gardening, seeing and being. An essay by Georgina Reid.
A conversation with Bruce Pascoe about farming indigenous food plants.
Neha Kale meets four artists exploring new relations with nature.
Some things, like gardening, come late. Others, like Country, are always there, according to Zena Cumpston.
A poem by Tony Birch.
A poem by Rachael Mead
Cultural anthropologist Natasha Myers chats with Georgina Reid about growing new worlds.
A poem by Shin Yu Pai.
The fight to save an ancient tree amid a Black Summer firestorm.
A poem by Dakota Feirer
Growing connections beyond the classroom with school-based nature education programs.
Georgina Reid explores explore an aesthetic of care that moves beyond the human as source and beneficiary of action. A de-centring of human desire in the garden.
Felix de Rosen roams the streets with Youtube botanist Joey Santore
Bill Henson moves his late mother's garden, before the bulldozers arrive.
Lille Madden is a climate activist, bird nerd and the First Nations Director at Groundswell Giving.
A Nelson Byrd Woltz designed public space by in New York is created for contemplation and connection.
Create a biodiverse, beautiful and compassionate garden, wherever you live.
'The idea of creation is beautiful, and the human species is capable of so much creation. But an existing climate and ecosystem, it’s not a blank page’ - Thomas Doxiadis
Breathing new life into a neglected Los Angeles park, one plot at a time.