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Community Stories
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Life on the deck of Hokule’a, the double-hulled canoe that sails around the world using only ancient wayfinding techniques.
![On the Theft of Dreams](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/wiwi-064-065-dykinga-cc-web-9x16-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
The first-place essay from a youth writing competition we hosted with the nonprofit Write the World.
![Built from Scrap](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/barrenengoa-m-0011-cc-web-hero-768x432.jpg.webp)
In northern Chile, a desert is being scourged by the textile industry. But a resilient community is transforming a reality of waste into opportunity.
![For the Love of Dirt](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/etzel-k-1992-cc-web-16x9-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
All photos by Ken Etzel If you get your nose close enough, ponderosa pine bark smells like vanilla. Or butterscotch, depending on the tree. Washington is famous for its pine trees. It’s portrayed as a land of constant water and ever-present green, which, in mountain biking terms, translates to a land of perfect trails and…
![Strength for the Next Disaster](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/reggero-d-0002-cc-web-hero-768x432.jpg.webp)
Louisiana community organizer Roishetta Ozane on her fight to stop the biggest fossil fuel expansion on earth and how mutual aid can play a part.
![Let’s End Neighborhood Drilling for Good](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/estrada-m-0070-cc-web-16x9-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
Our next fight against Big Oil is for basic human rights.
![A Better Way to Do Business](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/regester-gary-0146-cc-web-16x9-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
A conversation with Vincent Stanley, Patagonia’s director of philosophy and co-author of The Future of the Responsible Company: What We’ve Learned from Patagonia’s First 50 Years.
![To My Bebito](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/small-ltfc1-768x768.jpg.webp)
Climate and sustainability journalist Yessenia Funes writes to her future child—the one she hopes to have and has been afraid of bringing into our world.
![Daughter of the Sea](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/gormley-n-0085-cc-web-1600x1200-1-768x576.jpg.webp)
Struggling with a mental health crisis, one woman returns to the waters that raised her and finds healing in the ocean.
![Together as One](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/creary-r-1232-cc-web-hero-768x432.jpg.webp)
In a small British Columbia mountain town, one woman is using trails to help heal wounds and bridge two communities.
![Episode 6: We Are the Water](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/khandasilva-d-0001-cc-web-768x513.jpg.webp)
Patagonia and Pop-Up Magazine Productions present a series about knowledge.
![Land of the Midnight Surf](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/jolly-c-0026-cc-web-4x3-1-768x576.jpg.webp)
Inside Yakutat Surf Club’s budding stoke scene in Southeast Alaska.
![Episode 4: Silence Isn’t Silent](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/pat-f22-soundofsilence-popup-1170x1410-1-768x926.jpg.webp)
Patagonia and Pop-Up Magazine Productions present a series about knowledge.
![Queering Climb Mentorship](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/mccord-b-0054-cc-web-768x432.jpg.webp)
A conversation between Lor Sabourin and Madaleine Sorkin.
![The Collective Solution](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/westermeyer-a-0116-cc-web-2000x1500-1-768x576.jpg.webp)
A former city kid finds answers and empowerment in nature.
![Cleaning Up Chile’s Coast](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/westermeyer-a-0096-cc-web-2250x1066-1-768x364.jpg.webp)
The South Pacific has a plastic problem. He had a truck.
![The Last Takajo](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/endo-t-0032-cc-web-2250x1066-1-768x364.jpg.webp)
The remarkable relationship between Hidetoshi Matsubara and his birds of prey.
![Taking the Kids to Point Nemo](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/sao-s-0849-cc-web-2250x1066-1-768x364.jpg.webp)
When your goal is to raise children in wild places, it helps if you’re flexible.
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Shawn Hayes leads a life of devotion. For him, falconry is more than a deep partnership with raptors: it’s his life’s work.
![Making the Oath](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/balkin-g-0030-cc-web-19x9-1-768x364.jpg.webp)
Teresa Baker, Pattie Gonia, José González and Gabaccia Moreno bring a new initiative to the outdoor community.
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Out of necessity, Jacqueline Sangueza loved fishing nets before she loved the ocean.
![Life Lived Wild](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/chin-j-0178-16x9-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
Rolling Stone called him “the real Indiana Jones.” His new memoir reveals why our friend Rick was always a great deal more.
![Don’t Forget Your Roots](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/burrous-s-0047-cc-web-1900x900-1-768x364.jpg.webp)
First-generation Vietnamese American Mai Nguyen follows in the footsteps of their agrarian ancestors with a farm that grows numerous types of grains with a no-till, anti-fertilizer regenerative approach.
![Born to Fight](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/oreilly-a-0001-cc-web-768x576.jpg.webp)
The story of Naelyn Pike, a 21-year-old Chiricahua Apache, and her fight to keep sacred Apache land from becoming a copper mine.
![Raising Kuba](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/knapp-c-0002-cc-web-19x9-1-768x364.jpg.webp)
Cydney Knapp and her husband, Bartek, knew they wanted to raise their kids to love the outdoors, so they learned how to navigate change and embraced the chaos.
![Raised from Earth](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/1up-tile-raisedfromearth-film-768x1024.jpg.webp)
Under the gaze of southern Arizona’s cinnamon-hued Canelo Hills, a mother passes along an ancient Puebloan tradition of natural adobe building to her three sons.
![From the AT to NYC](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/caceres-b-0002-cc-web-2560x1920-1-768x576.jpg.webp)
How a mother’s own childhood experience on the Appalachian Trail shaped the way she teaches her four children to find nature in the heart of New York City.
![Dispatch from Fairy Creek](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/cholewa-o-0002-cc-web-4x5-2-768x960.jpg.webp)
Why a logging protest has become Canada’s largest act of civil disobedience.