multiple issues, Edible Iowa River Valley, 2007-2015
"Muscatine Melon: A Place-Based Food," Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Iowa State University, 2004
Essays: "Prairie Skin," in Wildbranch, An Anthology of Nature, Environmental and Place-Based Writing, edited by Florence Caplow and Susan A. Cohen, University of Utah Press, 2010,
"Winter Apples," in Vermont Local Table, Winter, 2008,
"Dear Young Iowan," in the anthology, Letters To Young Iowans, edited by Zachary Jack, UI Press, 2007.
"Reactor Woods," in the journal Isotope, 2005
History: "Atoms Amidst the Cornfields. Pride, Patriotism and Secret Atomic Research," Iowa Heritage Illustrated, Summer 2014. Winner of the 2015 George Mills/Louise Noun History Award for significant popular history, from the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs.