The Preserve Journal is an independent print magazine dedicated to the exploration of a more sustainable, responsible, and resilient food culture.
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11/10/2022
A closer look at one of the articles from Issue no 7: "Coca is not co***ne: A month in Alejo's kitchen" written by Andrea Pera Serrano, and accompanied by stunning photography by Daniela Fernandez. This piece is the second in a series of stories around coca, by the author. Please see The Preserve Journal’s Issue no 6 for the first.
Andrea sets the scene with this beginning:
"Years have passed since that meeting in Popayán. Many questions about what to do, many ideas and many disappointments have crossed my mind and stayed for long periods of time.
I worked for the government for a while, promoting public policies that strengthened their protection. But the process was so long and slow that I was soon demotivated to see issues come and go, on the whim of whichever politician was in power at the time.
I opted for a change, a change of life in general. I decided to study food mobility and cultures, and to immerse myself fully in the customs and culture of people in their daily lives, from a perspective of sustainability and ancestral traditions.
My beloved coca was obviously the subject of all my exams. I studied its ethnobotany, went to the Amazon to visit the indigenous communities that used it as a sacred plant, and came to know about its various processes and even about its chemical and nutritional compositions. I interviewed businessmen and academics who are experts on the subject. I spent a year learning about it.
When I graduated, I didn't know what to do about it. I did know one thing: I wanted people to know that coca is not co***ne."
Learn all about our newest issue via the link in our bio, from where you can also order Issue no 7, and read the full piece!
05/10/2022
"Mangualde"
Mangualde - Portugal
July, 2022
Photos and story by Michael Gannon. Michael is a street/documentary photographer born in Liverpool, England. He is known for his high-contrast vibrant photography. He now lives and works in Porto, Portugal. Find Michael at & www.michaelgannon.co
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"It was exciting to have access to their world, to interact with the animals at feeding time, to eat with the family at sunset, and to wake up in the morning to the crowing of the rooster. I hope my photos give you an idea of the experience.
As for the blueberries, well. I'd like to imagine that I know what a good blueberry tastes like. The organic blueberries at Quinta d'arminho are the best I've ever tasted. They're big, with a soft texture, almost crunchy at first, and are very tasty. We were sure to take a few boxes back home with us to Porto."
In the following days, we're delighted and proud to share Michael's photo story "Mangualde" with you here. You can also see all of Michael's photos and read his full story on our website thepreservejournal.com/photoseries/
Raquel & João:
01/10/2022
"Mangualde"
Mangualde - Portugal
July, 2022
Photos and story by Michael Gannon. Michael is a street/documentary photographer born in Liverpool, England. He is known for his high-contrast vibrant photography. He now lives and works in Porto, Portugal. Find Michael at & www.michaelgannon.co
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"June was also blueberry season at Quinta d'arminho. Raquel and João (the owners) assured me that their organic blueberries are some of the best in the country.
Our morning started at 6:00 am and ended at 11:00 am. This was the ideal time to harvest the blueberries before the heat increased. It's also common for João and Raquel to hire volunteers during this time. As parents of a four-year-old and owners of the quinta, they've little time for other things in life."
In the following days, we're delighted and proud to share Michael's photo story "Mangualde" with you here. You can also see all of Michael's photos and read his full story on our website thepreservejournal.com/photoseries/
Raquel & João:
27/09/2022
"Mangualde"
Mangualde - Portugal
July, 2022
Photos and story by Michael Gannon. Michael is a street/documentary photographer born in Liverpool, England. He is known for his high-contrast vibrant photography. He now lives and works in Porto, Portugal. Find Michael at & www.michaelgannon.co
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"My name is Michael Gannon. I'm a photographer originally from Liverpool in England. About three years ago I decided to move away from Colombia with my fiancée and settle in Portugal. I've been studying and working as a commercial photographer for almost ten years.
I've had the great fortune to travel and earn a living from my work. I've photographed fashion shows in Argentina, sardine fishermen in Portugal, and a Colombian actor in the Andes.
Photography is a sport where I'm always re-examining how I see the world. I want to find a deeper meaning than just photographing something because it's beautiful.
My latest work took me to a quinta (farm) in the interior of Mangualde, Dao. In this area, temperatures reach almost 40 degrees in the summer months.
For this series of images, I chose to shoot during the cooler hours at sunset. The Mangualde region has an intense tangerine-like hue that I was eager to photograph. It was my first time living on a farm and I wanted to document my interpretation of rural life. To have an understanding."
In the following days, we're delighted and proud to share Michael's photo story "Mangualde" with you here. You can also see all of Michael's photos and read his full story on our website thepreservejournal.com/photoseries/
Raquel & João:
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The Preserve Journal was founded in the fall of 2018 and bloomed out of a wish to take part in the environmental debate through the lens of food, to connect humans around the globe and to (hopefully) inspire change and have an actual impact- small as it might be.
The Preserve Journal is an independent print magazine dedicated to the exploration of a more responsible, transparent and sustainable food culture. Through it, we advocate an alternative way of life: one filled with curiosity, honesty, and a lot of love, one that is a powerful form of activism in itself. Here in Preserve, we believe that fermenting, foraging, and living with the seasons, as well as learning from each other offer concrete resistance to the homogenized, industrialized and capitalistic structures that predominate today’s food culture.
Ours is a magazine published independently and without advertisement and through it we wish to take a closer, deeper and more honest look at our food industry, our actions, and their impacts. Our aim is to embrace as many exciting, diverse and inspiring perspectives and voices as possible. By doing so we hope to create a channel for a curious, diverse and intimate exploration of a more sustainable, responsible and transparent food culture.
For The Preserve Journal, we have joined forces with experts from different backgrounds who all contribute to this magazine with their unique knowledge. We have teamed up with acclaimed chefs, bio-dynamic farmers, biologists, poets, urban gardeners, writers, responsible restaurants, public health experts, anthropologists, artists, travelers, wildlife experts, initiators, and environmental activists. And together we create and present The Preserve Journal!
We have zero advertisements, are independently published and responsibly printed. We don't have any big investors- what we have is passion, hard work and a lot of love for good food!
Our magazine’s goal is to inspire, to engage, and to create an inclusive dialog across different and various fields, while continuously asking how we as a community can create, nourish, and maintain a sustainable food culture. We hope to contribute to the global conversation on this subject. After all, today’s most pressing problems require solutions based on inter-cultural cooperation. We wish to invite our readers to look beyond the bite of food on their fork, and to see the whole picture of their meal and their role in it. With The Preserve Journal we hope to support the explorations of the many different ways by which we can interact with our food, as well as our potential to shape, influence and impact change.
Join us as we dive deep into various themes and hear from a wide range of brilliant authors and be thrilled to explore what a sustainable, transparent, and responsible food culture might look, work, and taste like.
In The Preserve Journal you'll meet beautiful analog photography and an exciting range of authors- some a steady part of the project exploring certain subjects over many volumes and some authors changing each issue. We collect our content during the year and with the changing seasons, but the content is not necessarily bound to any season. Our content is therefore relevant, interesting and important all year around.
In The Preserve Journal you will, among many others, hear from Kathe Kaczmarzyk and her piece "Beyond Fermentation" exploring fermentation and culture, Klara Rask on seasonal foraging, Emmy Laura Perez on her research within sustainable food, Lorenzo Barbasetti di Prun of Prometheus_Lab on his exploration into remote areas of food, culture & nature, Ane Brodsgaard diving into microbiology to create a more holistic idea of the bacteria in and around us and our food and Will Dorman who, through conversation, explores the idea of "Breaking Patterns of Consumption through Sustainability."
