The New Territory

06/06/2026

Aubrey Streit Krug is a longtime friend of The New Territory (poetry in Issue 11, Here essay in Issue 19). You can meet her in this free webinar hosted by Missouri Prairie Foundation!

https://moprairie.org/event/grow-native-webinar-living-roots-the-promise-of-perennial-foods-in-the-prairie-region/

𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝟏𝟕: 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐰 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞! 𝐖𝐞𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫: 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐬 & 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐧
Join Aubrey Streit Krug, Director of the Perennial Cultures Lab at The Land Institute, for a webinar to learn more about perennial foods and their deep roots in prairie ecosystems and communities! Aubrey will share insights from the diverse, growing movement to perennialize our food systems–including some exciting stories and delicious examples featured in the new co-edited collection Living Roots.

This free webinar, to be held via Zoom, will include a presentation and a live question-and-answer session. The webinar will be recorded, and a link to the recording will be sent to all registrants and posted to the MPF YouTube channel.

Wednesday, June 17 at 4:00 p.m. 1 GNPCP CEU. Register here: https://ow.ly/XyyL50Z8a76

𝑃ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑜 𝑜𝑓 𝐿𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑅𝑜𝑜𝑡𝑠 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟

06/05/2026

Next week, June 9! It's a River-Friend-Double-Header. Missouri River Relief's Big Muddy Speaker Series is hosting George Frazier, author of RIVERINE DREAMS (reviewed in NT 19) (review by Leslie VonHolten) (!!!)

Although it's a fun time in-person in CoMo, you can stream it live from anywhere!

Join us as George Frazier shares stories from his new book Riverine Dreams: Away to the Glorious and Forgotten Grassland Rivers of America.

06/04/2026

They just keep getting better. Printed on a night shift in Jefferson City, MO, and delivered on our front porch this week, Issue 19 is ready!

Ready for what?

Ready to take on your next lake weekend or camping trip. Ready to unfold over your morning coffee. Ready to be loved.

Subscribers and pre-orderers will get their copies in the mail straight from the printer.

We're packing boxes of all the rest (Patreon perks, bookstores, etc.) through the weekend and will get them to ya lickety split.

Miss the pre-order window? No worries, we got you! Just order a copy online or — better yet! — become a New Territory subscriber and save 17% + no extra cost for mail. https://shop.newterritorymag.com/

05/26/2026

In case you missed it, our 2025 Annual Report is here! See how we manage money for our publishing, programs and partnerships — and hear from our partners and contributors on what working with The New Territory means to them. 💛

Fetching postccard design by Ever Cole.

Major thanks to our board members for helping wrangle an entire year into one postcard, and the partners who lent their faces and words to become part of our story.

Click for the expanded report! 👇👇

The New Territory Magazine 2025 Annual Report A Note from our Editor-in-Chief and Executive Director Thank you, everyone, for a memorable 2025. Each year, we deeply value your kind words, print subscriptions, donations, volunteer editing, board-directing, contributions to an event, attendance at a r...

05/21/2026

Free for everyone, over on Patreon! Meet our "Weird News" illustrator, Nebraska prairie enthusiast, and friend Katie Nieland. 💛🦬

Roost #4 – Katie Nieland leads a whimsical life by The New Territory Magazine on Patreon. Join The New Territory Magazine's community for exclusive content and updates.

05/18/2026

Our 19th issue. Our 10th year of publishing stories about nature and culture in the Lower Midwest — by some of the most talented Lower Midwesterners.

We’re at the last step before pixels become paper and ink.

Celebrate with us by getting a happy mail subscription! Order at https://shop.newterritorymag.com/products/print-subscription

Cover image by Britny Cordera, TOC by Melissa St. Michael, design and other images by (and of!) Katie Young Foster. 💛

05/16/2026

There was a time when the Blue River actually ran blue. 🌊 So writes Gilbert Randolph () in Issue 19. Here’s a sneak peek of layout — and if you want to get design-nerdy 👩‍🎨🤓 with us about how Katie Young Foster captures nature, pollution, past, present, and future all in the same feature, head to our PATREON! Our intern has another long article that digs into the details. (And there’s a free Roost Questionnaire with Gilbert, curated by )

Pre-orders for Issue 19 are open on our Shopify site. Better yet, subscribe and save 17%+free shipping.

Links to everything are in our bio.

05/16/2026

🧮 Progress report: Issue 19 proofs are getting reviewed this weekend, and we just need to raise $1,864 to get to goal #2.

🙏 Big big thank you to all our donors and subscribers, from those who've given an Abraham Lincoln on up! 💛

Join the party and donate today if you're able! https://newterritorymag.com/donate/issue-19-fundraiser/

05/14/2026

What you missed while you weren't on Patreon...