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Cornelia Reynolds

Cornelia Reynolds is devoting her retirement to bee conservation. A lifelong gardener, she retired in 2017 as executive director of Noyo Food Forest, a local farm to school nonprofit. She is currently studying entomology—bugs and bees an unpursued interest since childhood—and developing a pollinator sanctuary on an acre in Mendocino County, California. She is chair of Fort Bragg Bee City USA, and a director of Bee Bold Mendocino, a nonprofit dedicated to making Mendocino a bee friendly county.

Cornelia Reynolds in Kosmos

Hopeful Essay Penned by Firelight


I am writing in the harsh light of a lantern and my blazing wood stove on the fourth night of a “public safety” blackout currently forecast to last for three more days. I am not near a fire or an evacuation zone. But that could change as quickly as a new fire report.


Published in Volume 19 Issue 4

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The Village Way

Practices for Belonging in a Fragmented World

For thousands of years, we lived according to the principles of village life. Then, around the 14th Century, our lives were reorganized by rulers around growth and accumulation – often at the cost of community, equity, and the living Earth. What would it mean to return to simplicity, and mutual care?

Join us for a 9-month inquiry into this question, exploring how we participate together in a time that calls us back to community, resilience, and shared life,

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