What?
Planted Journal is a BIPOC-led non-profit publication dedicated to bridging the gap between humans and nature for personal and planetary well-being. Our mission is to change the narratives around the climate crisis by sharing stories of creativity that spark hope, connection, and transformation.
Why?
The personal crisis and the environmental crisis are deeply intertwined. Human creative thinking and practices carry great potential to find solutions. We challenge the idea of separation from the natural world and bring forward oneness as a way of existence. By uniting the personal and environmental; human and nature; science and spirituality, we’re able to explore and find solutions to the most pressing contemporary issues related to our culture and climate.
How?
We have created a space for an ever-growing community to share their creativity through multidisciplinary practices, art, and radical journalism—a new narration where stories are shared honouring the rituals, facts, and consciousness of the macro-living entity. We are an extended creative calling of that entity, stemming out to make the collective acknowledge the within. By alchemising the mundane to the meaningful and passion to purpose, and by planting these potent seeds of thought, we aim not only to sustain but also to find cues on how to thrive.
Who and Where?
We’re a translocal organisation with a small, ethnically diverse team based across three continents.
Priyanka Singh Parihar
Founder and EIC
Milan, Italy
Priyanka Singh Parihar is a BIPOC writer, curator, and art director who explores the connection between humans and nature, searching for new ways of being. Hailing from a rural farming community in India and now living in Milan, she views the world through two distinct cultural lenses: East and West, rural and urban.
Why are personal and planetary well-being inseparable?
When we think about the cells within our body, we understand that each exists for a reason, shaped by evolution and essential to the functioning of the whole. I see the human body as a cell within the planetary body; we are here, and we each have a role to play.
Anna Borrie
Associate Editor
Barcelona, Spain
Anna Borrie is an interdisciplinary environmental artist, writer, and researcher. Her transdisciplinary practice explores the intersections of ecology, visual culture, and disability studies. With a background in fine arts and environmental policy, she develops projects that connect artistic production with social research and public engagement.
Why are personal and planetary well-being inseparable?
Everything is interconnected. We are affected by the environments we live in, and in turn we impact the ecosystems that we inhabit. By protecting land, water, and non-human life, we are caring for the ecosystems that provide us with physical and mental wellbeing.
Virginia Melodia
Photography Features Editor
Ibiza, Spain
Virginia Melodia is a creative storyteller. She tells stories through writing, poetry, photography, and video. Her mission is to connect people with nature and our shared humanity. She shares narratives that evoke a deep sense of connection and reverence for our planet and ourselves.
Why are personal and planetary well-being inseparable?
We are nature; therefore, what we do to the planet we do to ourselves.
Rebecca Wickham
Graphic Designer
Melbourne, Australia
Rebecca Wickham is an artist and designer from Gadi/Sydney. Her work is primarily focused on the climate crisis, ecology, and landscape. With a BA in design and an MA in photojournalism and documentary photography, her research-based practice encompasses image, text, sound, and sculpture, exploring the entanglement of nature and humanity through the traces we leave on each other.
Why are personal and planetary well-being inseparable?
Our bodies are not distinct from the earth we walk on but are ecological, porous, and tangled in the stuff of the world—our skin is not the end of us. I believe that the health of the planet is reflected in our relationship with it.
Madeleine Freundlich
Food and Agriculture Editor
Bologna, Italy
Madeleine Freundlich is a researcher, writer, and farmer who seeks to weave the threads that connect land stewardship to cultural futurity. Growing up in the American northeast, Madeleine’s outlook is informed by walks through the undergrowth, blueberry patches, and a deep sense of agricultural community.
Why are personal and planetary well-being inseparable?
Simply put, there is little difference between us and the planet. The same destructive processes that exploit the earth are the ones that pollute our bodies.
Sarita Gara
Assistant Editor
Ohio, USA
Sarita Gara is an arts advocate and library worker. She brings a well-rounded perspective from a background of studies encompassing English literature, environmental issues, feminist thought, political identities, and queer culture. Her poem “Late Bloomer” was featured in tiny wren lit’s Earth anthology (2025).
Why are personal and planetary well-being inseparable?
I believe we find fulfillment by extending our sight beyond ourselves to appreciate beauty in our surroundings. By easing the burden on our planet, we ease the burden on each other, a healthy environment making way for a greater personal appreciation of the everyday.
Plus an extended group of collaborators who contribute their creativity to Planted
Partnerships
We are open for paid storytelling collaborations with aligned brands, organisations, and institutes.
If your work resonates with us, we’d love to collaborate.