When people recycle waste, the market determines how the waste is reused. Bram Sable-Smith investigates the recycling process in Maine and how the recycling market functions.

Pamela Wood offers an introduction to readers for this double issue, that touches on the continuity of work, continuing harvest of land, and making of things.

Alysia Mazzella documents the life of Kitty, a transgender man who recognized her vision of gender nonconformity while in prison. Mazzella highlights the journey that Kitty has gone through and how she is transitioning within society.

Discussing her brothers autism, Marissan Skillings speaks about dealing with her brothers disability as the older sibling. Skillings explains the difficulties she has at times with her brothers, and how she stands up for him.

Michelle Sheppard captures the daily activities and lives of students from Baxter School for the Deaf in Falmouth, Maine.

Pamela Wood introduces readers to the topic of poverty, which is the focus of this issue of Salt Magazine.

Matthew Belson discusses the activity of dog sledding and the dogs that are bred for the sport.

In order to learn about the Finnish community in Maine, Kate Jeremiah and Nina Hein visit the South Paris sauna. Jeremiah captures their lives in Maine.

On her farm under the shadow of the White Mountains, Helen Perley raises animals. Val Gould and Elizabeth Tanner document the work Perley does on her farm with animals.

Pamela Wood responds to the possibility of Maine having a nuclear dump site.

Readers write in response to the work Salt has done.

In response to big agribusiness, Heather Retberg is helping to lead a grassroots movement that declares access to food of our choice is a legal right. Jenn Corey documents how thirteen towns in Maine have passed laws declaring a right to sell food to their neighbors without government intervention.