Mark Mann

A new era of human fungi relations is dawning. Peter McCoy wants you to join the revolution.

Growing up in Tobago, Terry Dennis spent all his time outdoors. But after emigrating to Québec, he lost his close connection with nature, until a mentor helped him revive his spirit of exploration

Beau Miles sings the body exhausted. Aching, chafing, stinking, swelling, limping, bruising — these are the reliable landmarks of an adventure-filled life, and the popular Australian YouTuber knows them all intimately. At 41, he’s spent the better…

Ferdinand Ludwig dreams of turning cities into inhabitable forests. His research led him to the wettest place on earth, where bridges are made from living trees. It’s no coincidence that the planet’s wettest patch of earth is also home to its most…

Trace them back far enough, and you’ll find that many farm stories start in the city. After all, that’s where most of us are, and so that’s where we have our wild ideas. This one begins in Toronto in the summer of 1983, when a 32-year-old artist…

Andreas Wenning never set out to become the world’s preeminent treehouse architect. At first, he just wanted to build one for himself, because, well, he liked the idea of hanging out in a nice space that also happened to be in a tree. His first,…

Come out the door of the Old Mill subway station in Toronto on any cool day in late September or early October, turn right, and within 1,000 feet you’ll walk straight into one of the most unique and bustling salmon fisheries in the world, and one of…

Following her mother’s murder, Amber Tamm Canty found healing and purpose through farming. Now, with thousands flocking to her cause, she’s aiming to change the landscape of food security in New York, starting with Central Park. The harvest that…

If the weeds and invasives of Montréal had a god, it would be the Falaise Saint-Jacques. Nine storeys tall and three kilometres long, the narrow forested escarpment hunches over Highway 20 at the entrance to the city, absorbing the dust and roar of…

Is the viscous green sludge that coats the water an ecological disaster—or just a nuisance for beachgoers? Lake winnipeg is large and changes colour. As summer progresses, parts of it slowly shift from milky mahogany to bluish green, and by August,…

Photo by Emily Wampler MUD The first and most abiding experience of working on an Alberta oil rig is the feel of thick, wet mud on your bare skin. When I arrived at the tool house, a small room bedecked with cable, wrench and screw, one of the…