Experience progressive rural America with a digital postcard delivered to your inbox every two weeks. No tropes, stereotypes or echo chambers. Just a newsletter by someone building a community of people working toward a healthier planet in a hostile world.
Postcards from the Heartland are stories of rural life told with a woman’s bruised body just in from tending the orchards. Feed your political soul with a short, crafted essay and original photos. Be inspired to make your case to the people you know with the confidence that you are not alone.
Join a community where love and justice live just down the road from frustration, fear and the many things left unsaid. Together, let’s answer despair with hope and paralysis with action as we traverse the evolving social and political landscape of our United States.
Why Suzan?
40 years of storytelling experience through books, articles, features, and as an editor and writer for hire.
A lifelong outsider looking in. A three-time transplant back to Iowa, this time for good.
Walking the walk. I live, I serve, I farm, I love Iowa for all its good, bad and ugly.
A well-developed political sense. For 10 years, I founded and built the Sustainable Iowa Land Trust (SILT) to preserve land to grow healthy food in a state that doesn’t believe in using its land for that purpose. Before that, I had served as a newspaper editor and publisher and as a union and community organizer. My life and career were inspired by the South Africa divestiture movement and the Iowa Farm Crisis of the 1980’s.
Free subscribers get a good read, original photos and an occasional surprise at the end of a post every couple of weeks.
Paid subscribers get access to the archives and a curated tour of Draco Hill Nature Farm. We’ll send you off with a free taste from the farm, too! (Remind us when you visit.)
Most importantly, your paid subscription supports the courage to continue this work.
Interested in learning how to use metaphor to tell your story? Suzan is available for affordable, personalized coaching sessions in person or by video chat. If you’ve never written a word or if you’re just looking for a tune-up, this is for you!
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