Nick Routledge@AgrarianSharing
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RT @AgrarianSharing: @HeritageSeedsUK @cbhallgardens @EnglishHeritage Here in Oregon our volunteer team is busy in ASN's 3.5K member FB group, lining up seed-increase volunteers for 2026. Our focus? Individual OP varieties that excel (old or modern, we're not fussy); 'modern landrace' populations; and multi-variety trials of particular crop types.

Screenshot of ASN's FB group and peeps volunteering for seed increases.
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Screenshot of ASN's FB group and peeps volunteering for seed increases.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 10 Nov 2025

@Plough @CalebCoyGuard Food is where modernity's broken metaphysic becomes concrete, measurable, edible. If we heal how a people grow, share, and honor food, we're not doing a side project; we're tending to the taproot of collective life, the foundation beneath the foundation.

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Copy of tweet here: 6/ 25 years on, Sages now aver that authentic food culture - a truly, functional relationship with what symbiotically nourishes ourselves and our world - defines a primary regenerative pathway coherently and, yes, peacefully addressing the totality of what ails us as a species. Memorial Day Eucharist. : "Jesus did not say, “Think about this,” “Fight about this,” “Stare at this;” but He said “Eat this!” Sometimes it seems that outsiders can appreciate it more than Christians. A dynamic, interactive event that makes one out of two.” [Painting on wood. Signage. Food Not Lawns, 2000.] First, know food. From food all things are born, by food they live, toward food they move, into food they return. - Upanishads Quote tweet:  "As Gandhi said, “There are so many hungry people in the world that God could only come into the world in the form of food.” God comes to feed us more than just teach us. Lovers understand that.” 2/

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Quoted byLight-eaters define the animating patterns of culture—which is why repentance, ultimately, involves re-submitting our lives to the school of chlorophyll. The @agrariansharing Seed Increase Initiative meets again this weekend, to quietly rehearse that conversion. DM me for deets.