This is the whole story of what happened to infant and young child feeding in Western North Carolina after Hurricane Helene, told across twenty-five pieces and published one at a time. The main thread is Love’s, running from the saturated ground before the storm all the way to the policy ask at the end. Between those pieces runs a second thread, the voices from the field: the volunteers, coordinators and site staff who did the work, in their own words and with their permission.
Read it in order or drop in wherever you like. Every piece stands on its own. Titles without a link have not been published yet, and the month beside each one is when it is expected.
It opens with One Cloth, Many Hands.
The series in order
| # | Title | When |
|---|---|---|
| — | One Cloth, Many Hands | Published 11 August 2026 |
| 1 | The Calm Before the Storm | 25 August 2026 |
| 2 | The Flood | September 2026 |
| 3 | Everyone Breastfeeds Here | September 2026 |
| 4 | Building the Plane While Flying It | October 2026 |
| 5 | The Freezing Car Line | October 2026 |
| 6 | The Day It Wasn’t a Ten-Day Project | November 2026 |
| 7 | A Mile from Home | November 2026 |
| 8 | Groundhog Day and the Seven-Day Training | December 2026 |
| 9 | They Felt Guilty About the Expired Formula | December 2026 |
| 10 | The Winter We Almost Closed | January 2027 |
| 11 | Cold Storage | January 2027 |
| 12 | This Is a North Carolina Problem | February 2027 |
| 13 | Sent in Circles | February 2027 |
| 14 | Telling Other States | March 2027 |
| 15 | The Couch in the Boutique | March 2027 |
| 16 | More Resources for Pets Than Babies | April 2027 |
| 17 | The Blessing Box | April 2027 |
| 18 | The Model Spreads | May 2027 |
| 19 | The End of the Line | May 2027 |
| 20 | Washington and the It-Girl Moment | June 2027 |
| 21 | Winding Down | June 2027 |
| 22 | Planting Beautiful Seeds in a Field of Shit | July 2027 |
| 23 | The Backbone | July 2027 |
| 24 | Not Without Cost | August 2027 |
| 25 | The Blue-Sky Problem and the Ask | August 2027 |
| — | The Finale | To come |
New pieces are announced in the SAFE Team newsletter, and everything filed here also appears on the Voices from the Storm archive.
The training that runs alongside this story is Nourishing Resilience, eleven recorded sessions, free. If you want to start building this in your own community, begin at Build It In Your Community.