The unlikely story of how formal Italian Renaissance gardens encouraged the preservation of the A...

'If there is grass and a few scraggling trees, there will be wildlife,' suggests John Hanson Mitc...

Now back in print, Living at the End of Time is the story of a Thoreauvian experiment in simple l...

Twenty-five years ago Mitchell cut down a 1 1 2-acre stand of 75-year-old white pines and planted...

In 1928, Massachusetts water authorities began land takings for the construction of the Quabbin R...

On a fifteen-mile bushwhack, exploring the whole idea of place

John Hanson Mitchell has long written about his garden outside of Boston, and about the plants an...

'For over twenty years, John Hanson Mitchell has visited Beaver Brook almost daily. This small, s...

A magical book that turns one modest square mile of exurban land into the most remarkably fascina...

In the mid 1970s, John Hanson Mitchell discovered over 2,000 antique glass plate negatives in the...

An exploration of the various systems of land control and the evolution of private property