@AgroBioDiverse 2\ This illuminates community-based agrobiodiversity work. ASN isn't simply increasing genetic diversity but rebuilding the conditions in which it can differentiate bioculturally: living inheritances entrusted over time to particular places, needs, tastes, practices and peoples.
@Plough 4/ The basic building-block of 'eco-social physicanship'? Put simply, 'socially-applied agro-biodiversity': the mutual adaptation, co-evolution, companionship and synergy defining weddings of human and more-than-human diversity in 'rootsy' bio-cultural combinations that 'click'.
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Copy of tweet here: 1/ In the US, we place a necessary emphasis on 'remaking' as distinct from 'conserving' bio-cultural integrity. @agrariansharing, a little-noticed, PNW-based, 'applied biodiversity' initiative, has been at the work - the only place it works: at the grassroots level - for decades. 2/ Meanwhile, Agrarian Sharing Network 'propagation fairs' draw deeply upon a traditional form - the 'potlatch' - an indigenous, PNW, bio-cultural model of community gathering in which 'stewardship means' is deliberately interwoven into the living fabric of convivial experience. 1/ Here in the States, we're not so focused upon preserving intact eco-cultures - sadly, the historical co-existence between people and biodiversity is largely broken - as much as we are in *re-establishing* biocultural syntheses which 'click'. We do have some strengths, though.