For breakfast, the final apple of my 2023 harvest, crisply perfect still. It was a mid-winter epiphany (munching on an apple-from-afar) realizing the possibility of eating fresh, locally-grown fruit, every day, that prompted the advent of what became the Agrarian Sharing Network.
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A green apple, held in hand.
@brightabyss Yes. But where and how is this work actually getting done? Locally, for starters. A foundational nexus in this regard? Community collaborations distributing extensive arrays of agro-biodiversity advancing the regeneration of localized food systems or ‘reinhabitory foodsheds’.
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Copy of tweet and tweet image: Nick Routledge Nick_routledge What's 'eco-social physicianship'? Well, come join the grassroots, pan-bioregional, 'applied agro-biodiversity' initiative already a proven PNW cornerstone of community-based regenerative-design. Where? @agrariansharing's 7th propagation fair of 2023, in Eugene, OR, this Saturday. Image of tweet: Nick Routledge Nick_routledge For regenerative designers, diversity serves as the source and basis of life, harmony, balance, bounty, resilience, companionship and unity in nature and society. #AgrarianSharingNetwork youtu.be/9BHwGyUNNiU Image within image: "The web of life is a food web. Food is life. Increasing diversity is the ecological principle for increasing health, resilience and abundance in living systems. Biodiversity and cultural diversity need each other for the regeneration of nature and culture.” - Vandana Shiva