A Subversive Retelling of Irish Myth
The Plain of Pillars
An ancient people discover the brutality of peace in The Plain of Pillars, a sweeping mythological (Irish) fantasy and climate sci-fi series that “weaves a vibrant tapestry of hope, resilience, and magik” (Literary Titan), and interrogates the roots of colonialism and heritage.
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Published Articles, Stories, and Essays
While not a full list of published materials, the below are highlights or snapshots in time from the past 5 years.
May, 2024: Climate, Kincentric Rewilding, and The Color of Clouds, Resilience.org
March, 2024: The Keeper, The Tiller, The Question, Front Porch Republic
December, 2023: Shakespeare, Sonnets, and Stewardship: Why Ecological Problems Require Poetry, Resilience.org
May, 2023:‘Regenerative’ Agriculture is Disunifying, and that is Okay, Resilience.org
September, 2019: How to Grow a Blueberry Guild in a Temperate Climate Successfully, Permaculture Research Institute
July, 2019: Minerals and Natural Instincts, Permaculture Research Institute
July, 2019: Adaptive Epigenetics by Rewilding Livestock, Permaculture Research Institute
Indie-published & Award-winning books
Mythological Fiction about a reawakening of an ancient Celtic story for the modern world that creates a ballasting breath and an ancient dream for the future to walk in, The Plain of Pillars (2024)
Narrative Non-Fiction about the Wilding of the Regenerative Agricultural Movement, Wild Like Flowers (2021)
Narrative Non-Fiction about the transformation of our family farm into a pioneering and internationally renown Kincentric Rewilding Landscape, Stagtine (2024)
Essay/Philosophy Non-Fiction about the four relationships of regeneration: chaos, limits, art, singularity, Dark Cloud Country (2022)
American History about the early west an the problems of settler colonialism in view of western expansion and frontiersmen, Boone (2020)
If you are new to Firth's writings, we advise starting with Wild Like Flowers, then reading Stagtine, letting the rest follow as they may.
Spring, 2025
An ancient people discover the brutality of peace in The Plain of Pillars, a sweeping mythological (Irish) fantasy and climate sci-fi series that “weaves a vibrant tapestry of hope, resilience, and magik” (Literary Titan), and interrogates the roots of colonialism and heritage.
Book I: A subversive retelling of Celtic mythology and Irish fairytales and legends.
A melody once existed. It created the Rim of the World where life lives humbly and as the limbs of the land’s many colors. It was primal, untamed, and boundless. A boy, born from the yellowing mane of a horse, enters a world where gods walk with mortals, trees whisper secrets to stones, and stones morph into glistening tapestries red as blood. But it did not last…
The People of Síraide’s bond is tested in the fires of slavery and war, and together they must uncover an ancient secret held in the heart of them all.
Spring, 2024
A 2025 Nautilus Special Prize in Best Small Press Books of the Year.
"If you think you understand regenerative agriculture, think again. Firth's experience and writing challenges all pre-conceived notions and helps us rethink our relationship to nature around us and the earth beneath our feet." - Hilda Labrada Gore, Wise Traditions Podcast of the Weston A. Price Foundation.
Are Homo sapiens mammals or mini gods?
Stagtine is an epic tale, rich with surprising science and agricultural insight, of one family’s transition from a struggling regenerative farm to a pioneering kincentric rewilding landscape.
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Our modern mythology is the climate crisis. From mass species extinctions that tally at pace with exhaled breath to the reigning of carbon and pollution that suffocate our scorching days—she is knocking, and she is at the door.
We are told that we need to do more: do more to save the world, do more to build efficient, regenerative systems. We are told agriculture is here to save the day. But will it be enough?
What if that was the wrong question? What if climate change is not a crisis to be solved but a living force inviting us back into relation?
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In place of the modern story that humans must “save the world,” Stagtine circles inward to a simpler, more ancient proposal: we can enliven our visit to Earth by relinquishing control and stepping into right relationship with one another and the landscapes we inhabit.
Foreword by Dr. Fred Provenza.
340 pages.
Spring, 2023
A 2022 National Indie Excellence AwardWinning in Nature.
A groundbreaking collection about the WILDING of the regenerative agriculture movement.
Part mystical stories and poems where trees talk and briars walk, part lyrical studies of mathematics and art, Dark Cloud Country is a pioneering portrait of the WILD in and around us.
In Dark Cloud Country, Griffith debuts a new paradigm for WILDING-what he calls the Four Relationships: chaos, bounds, art, and singularity. Instead of offering us regenerative practices, Griffith's Four Relationships invites us to open our minds to transform the way we think so that our community with Mother Earth becomes elevated from dominance to reciprocity-a journey that begins by dropping your shears and opening your ears; one that begins by taking off your shoes.
Spring, 2021
A 2021 Next Generation Indie Book Award in Nature/Environmentalism
This is a book about Regenerative Agriculture gone wild. This book of short stories and essays is a wondrous meditation on sunrises and wildness, on wildflowers and walks. It is also a book about you, about me, and about the ecosystem regeneration possible through learning to see the wild gifts of Relationship.