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@ramskelet0n @FoodForestNetwk We can have agriculture only within nature, and culture only within agriculture, Wendell Berry says: “At certain points these systems have to conform with one another or destroy one another...You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.”

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Quoted by1/ International, the seasonal gossip at local, folksy prop fairs, I find. One of the more significant planetary turns of the moment, perhaps? The paralyzed silence of Dutch multinational seed farmers - the peeps who make the seed that farmers need. Foundation folk, fucked, ffs.Quoted by@CACRadicalGrace @LoorzVictoria 3/ A defining cultural challenge is how to learn/teach the democratic foundations of robust food systems and, in the same breath, resilient food systems as robust foundations of democracy. Wendell Berry: "At some point these issues catch up to you."