IssueN°04

Undergrowth

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Feature

Field notes from the dormant months — what soil remembers when nothing is planted.

From the editors

We believe that rest is not absence. Between plantings, a field is neither empty nor idle: roots hold, microbes negotiate, and the ground quietly writes the next season. Fallow Press documents these intervals — ecological, cultural, and personal — one issue at a time.

Selected stories

Soil

Essay

The Seed Vault Beneath the Commons

Essay · Lena Oduya

Report

A Season Without an Orchard of Sand

Report · Tomás Reyes

Dispatch

The Ecologist Naming Seeds That Were Never Saved

Dispatch · Amara Seng

Rain

Interview

On Wordlessness

Interview · Ruth Calder

Photo story

A Map is a Fallow of What We’ve Learned to See

Photo story · Ilya Brandt

Essay

The Scripting Life of a Forest Commons

Essay · Hana Ito

Roots

Film

Watching, in Place

Film · Nova Quill

Film

Three Rural Responses for Land Reform

Film · Piet Ellis

Archive

Seeding with the Fire-Prairie Keeper

Archive · Folk Coll. N°11

F A L L O W

Volume 4 — Undergrowth ships this winter

On the press · December 2026

Film

A Where of Fields
Jeremy Say & Franklin James Roberts