RT @nick_routledge: @Plough It's not that US models don't exist—45 yrs. of 'for-and-by-the-community' Food Not Bombs kitchens, hierarchy be damned, prove the point. As for yet deeper eco-cultural coherence? Such efforts produce vast amounts of high-quality compost: a self-reinforcing gift of life to itself.
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Copy of tweet here: and 2/ Lots of folk acutely alert to the reality of civilizational collapse are adapting to responsive, optimistic, engaged, constructive lives. A hint? “Start feeding people, start working with others to produce food, and you suddenly have a community; probably a very diverse one.” Image: abstract cross-flower, with calligraphy: "Feeding the hungry is greater work than raising the dead." - St.John Chrysosdom Calaveras County Poor People's Campaign Farm Hmm. Given that Sikhism’s special relation with food and farming, to this day, represents a great relative strength among world religions, I wonder if the tradition may yet contribute a uniquely vital perspective and approach to the planetary regenerative-design movement.
1/7 In 1999, I co-founded the self-described 'avant-gardening collective', Food Not Lawns. Our team, operating a community soup-kitchen in Eugene, OR, had discerned that the vast structural injustices driving food poverty were calling us to a radical shift in direction.
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Copy of tweet here: the UN special rapporteur on the right to food: “Any hope for justice for all in the United States must address people’s food needs and the food system.” Stuart Haniff, CEO @foodbankrgv: "The truth is, we’re never going to foodbank our way out of hunger." Because the root cause of hunger is inequality, any method of boosting food production that deepens inequality will fail to reduce hunger. Conversely, only technologies that have positive effects on the distribution of wealth, income, and assets, that are pro-poor, can truly reduce hunger. -Miguel Altieri The contemporary 'paradise gardening' or 'prophetic earthwork' movement adds a novel twist, embodying a dynamic reconciliation of path, justice and peace in the natural, immediate sequence of a concrete, native journey into Beauty’s deepest ground. How and why do we garden, then?
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Copy of the Food Not Lawns original website logo - a 'Celtic' trinity knot made of worms.