CULTIVATION

Cultivation: the act of caring for living things of all kinds.
Cultivation: tilling, tending to, and turning pieces of the world over and over in our minds’ eyes.

Agriculture and, in its most literal sense, cultivation is so many things at once: a carbon source and sink, an engine of profit and debt, a tool of oppression and liberation, a place to begin and a place to end. Wading through these contradictions can feel impossible. What’s the point of a word that’s all things to all people? Then again, maybe that’s what makes it so compelling. Cultivation belongs to everyone, a commons in its own right.
This year’s SAGE print selections revel in soil, sunlight, and rain, but they don’t stop there. Throughout these pages, minds, bodies, lands, waters, and souls — human and more-than-human — are cultivated. We travel from Tennessee acres to Florida flatlands, from Ancient Egypt to Yale’s future “Apple” orchard. We cover enormous ground. We deliver these pieces with the acknowledgement that so much in this moment has been and will be tested, uprooted, redefined, and rebuilt. There is so much more to come, to grow. Enjoy it all. Let it nourish you, because it will.

Lauren Ashbrook and Sawyer Cresap
SAGE Magazine Co-Editors in Chief

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MANAGING EDITOR: Shaylyn Austin
ARTS EDITOR: Sam Feibel
SUPPORTING EDITORS: Molly Ryan & Elizabeth Himschoot
COVER IMAGE: Sam Feibel
DESIGN: The Aliens, thealiens.online
Typeset in William’s Caslon Text
Printed by the Prolific Group in Canada.
Edition of 500.