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Community Stories
![Photo: John Bilderback](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/bilderback_j_0079_featured-768x424.jpg.webp)
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)
Simplicity, style and lessons in bike jazz on Eastern Washington’s Beacon Hill.
![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.
![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.
![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.
![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 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.
![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.
![Episode 3: Dying to Make a Living](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/sheldon-curren-0006-cc-web-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.
![Game Hawker](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/etzel-k-1588-cc-web-4x5-1-768x925.jpg.webp)
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.
![Falling for Fishing Nets](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/westermeyer-a-0040-cc-web-768x512.jpg.webp)
Out of necessity, Jacqueline Sangueza loved fishing nets before she loved the ocean.
![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.
![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 has always been a great deal more.