Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
@LMSacasas Lee Hoinacki, one of Illich’s closest friends and collaborators, abandoned a tenured post for subsistence farming in Illinois. His daughter Beth became an Oregon farmer and a pillar of the biodynamic movement, the West’s most fully elaborated tradition of spiritual agriculture.
Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 13 Apr 2025
I tell ya, lapping up the manifest profundity of deeply holistic agrarian practice around fieldwork, bookshelves and dinner table conversation at Goodfoot Farm in Kings Valley, OR, is nutrition for the soul, incarnate. Through and through, it feels, quite simply, paradisiacal.
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Illich on the bookshelves.
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A view of the farm at dusk.