The joy at yesterday’s @agrariansharing gathering drew comment. It so often does. I’ve long sensed such gladness emerges from lives bound together in freely sharing creation’s abundance, drawn into the deeper harmony of things. A taste of salvific reality.
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ASN volunteers gather round a table tasting fruit diversity.
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Photo of a locally sourced salad. Very pretty.
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Photo of a red--fleshed peach.
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Photo of a short woman holding up a piece of fruit to taste for her very tall sweetie.
@NWirzba 2/ For all his remarkable achievements, Wendell Berry stands preeminent among political philosophers for articulating an incarnate soteriology of the polis—public life finds its salvation in the right ordering and inhabiting of living relations, not in their political simulation.
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The polis is as bound to natural law as the forest. Democracy is not built upon agrarianism as much as inseparable from it. No constitution can save a people estranged from right relationship with the daily referendum sovereignty roots in. Democracy is inhabited through eating. 3/ A defining cultural challenge is how to learn/teach the democratic foundations of robust food systems and, in the same breath, resilient food systems as robust foundations of democracy. Wendell Berry: "At some point these issues catch up to you." We can have agriculture only within nature, and culture only within agriculture, Wendell Berry says: “At certain points these systems have to conform with one another or destroy one another...You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.”