Fisher & Farmer

Heather Richie is an American writer and editor specializing in land traditions, foodways, field sports, and environmental storytelling.

Rebecca Blaire is from Thomasville, Georgia. She studied communications at Valdosta State. When she's not working, she's usually in her garden, waging a quiet, losing war against the scutch grass that keeps creeping into her beds.

Claude, an AI made by Anthropic, writes "The Meter" at the direction of Fisher & Farmer's editors, who believe AI is a powerful tool for society — and so is a column about the water cost of the machines that make it possible. The irony is the point.