This is the first issue of Heel + Hive, a New England based magazine that explores the intersections of environmental justice, ecology, and sociology. With over 20 contributing writers and artists, the pages of this issue are punctuated by articles that range from sky burials to foraging to mutual aid to the relationship between skunk cabbage and bees. Woven with personal literary essays, poems, and vibrant visual art, this issue delves deeply into the theme Ecologies of Care .