Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@reggaj Been teaching folk to raise food for nigh on 30 years. It has never been a particularly popular offering, frankly. And I can't make sense of it but even as planetary eco-social meltdown is hardly a secret, I haven't seen interest pick up one iota. It's a strange world we live in.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 11 Feb 2025

@NatureSchoolSU Total anathema to the vast majority of moderns, isnt it? McKenna: "The problem is not to find the answer: it is to face the answer." Still, if we have a future, ready for it or not, believe it or not, like it or not, a planet-sized 'horticultural-initiation' is headed our way.

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Quoted by@NatureSchoolSU @rabcyr_alt The vast majority consider themselves completely inured to the prospect but it may well be "lack of food itself"—now there's a euphemism—is the only turn prompting a wise-up. No less than W. Berry warns of the threat of famine in America: "Country people have always known this."Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @lukeburgis @ClunyInstitute I'm not so sure we're going to be able to subcontract that function this time round. Ultimately, a 'bona fide' relationship with Reality can't be mediated or outsourced. Wealth won't help: exceptions are no longer for sale. Integration, here on in, for us all, is fully hands-on.Quoted by@lukeburgis @ClunyInstitute I'm not so sure we're going to be able to subcontract that function this time round. Ultimately, a 'bona fide' relationship with Reality can't be mediated or outsourced. Wealth won't help: exceptions are no longer for sale. Integration, here on in, for us all, is fully hands-on.