Dark Properties is a future-focused newsletter connecting personal and planetary ecologies, from editor & gardener Willa Köerner. Dispatches feature interviews, essays, and guides aimed at brightening our vision for what we can collectively grow.

What the vulnerable butterfly can teach us about ourselves, our world, and the magic that goes beyond it all.

Sam Bloch on shade as an overlooked strategy for keeping cool in a burning-hot world.

LinYee Yuan on the beginnings of a collectively designed food forest in central Brooklyn.

Nicole Yeo on starting a collective of Asian-led farms that grow food, solidarity, and mutual viability.

Rowen White on rehydrating ancestral foods as a way to reseed imagination.

Fritz Haeg on reinventing a commune, and the fragility of reciprocal relationships.

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