Meet the Founders
The Gravel Road is agriculturally owned and rurally written.Â
Summer 2024
Theme:
Transitions
The Gravel Road invites submissions and nominations that explore transition within agriculture. We look forward to hearing about moments of change in the life agricultural, both small and large.
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We hope you'll share moments from farm and ranch origin stories, offer insights into generational ownership transfers, and introduce us to the people who shaped those moments.
We look forward to reading about how the farm and has evolved over the years and exploring notable events that happened on the land--personal, ecological, and everything in between. We want to peek into changing structures and meet evolving herds. We welcome stories that represent the vitality of change across the diversity of the agricultural experience.
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Mission
AG Stories, Ag Voices
The Gravel Road prevents the erosion of agricultural knowledge loss and supports community engagement by equipping agriculturalists and rural writers to share their stories.
Vision
Craft Cultivating Community
As the only agricultural arts magazine built around rural storytelling, The Gravel Road publishes culturally impactful creative works and transformative narratives by agriculturalists, for agriculturalists, shifting knowledge loss into community gains.
Values
stories for the soil
1. Support agriculture through rural storytelling with an appreciation for its diversity and cultural representations.
2. Provide a space for agricultural expression and engagement through creative writing.
3. Contribute to the vitality of agricultural communities by enriching community-building through creative expression and rural storytelling.
4. Promote cross-generational communication to encourage holistic land transition and the preservation of agricultural operations.
5. Cultivate diverse and interwoven understandings of rural storytelling and creative writing within agriculture as tools for economic development.
6. Honor the lessons of the past and respect the experiences of the present while embracing the full potentiality of our agricultural future.
7. Broaden the understanding of rural writers, storytellers, and memory-keepers in non-agricultural settings to support a clearer understanding of agriculture’s importance.
8. Embolden production agriculturalists to reflect on their lived experiences in writing for the purposes of economic, social, and mental resiliency.
9. Present creative and reflective writing as tools of sound farm and ranch management.
10. Offer individual agriculturalists writing-based tools to preserve and share their wisdom, truths, knowledge, competencies, and skills with a relevant audience, reducing knowledge loss and increasing collective understanding.
11. Facilitate informal and routine dialogue with industry experts and leaders with intentionality.