By Ragan Sutterfield on 11/01/2011
A deep love for small things forms and trains us to savor the world and to recognize the unsavory when it appears…While major protests and efforts against the forces of global extractive economies have their place, we have the opportunity daily to participate in a slower, more profound work…
Posted in Agrarian Notebook, Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged agrarianism, collard greens, cooking, economics, empire, food, food and faith, globalization, localism, love, Philosophy, relocalization, slow food, small is beautiful, southern cooking |
By Thomas Turner on 07/29/2011
The mad farmer says of the farmer who has given in to industrialization “If he raises a good crop at the cost of belittling himself and diminishing the ground, he has gained nothing…The Mad Farmer encourages us to stop thinking about money and goods and to return to thinking about our communities and land…
Posted in Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged agrarian, community gardens, culturemaking, eco-agriculture, farming, Homesteading, intellectual agrarian, literature, local food, localism, Mad Farmer, natural farming, new agrarians, permaculture, poetry, rethinking agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture, unorthodox agriculture, Wendell Berry |
By Jason Fowler on 06/24/2011
Year of Plenty is an insightful, profound yet humorous narrative that provides a refreshing perspective on the intersection between Christian faith and issues of economy, environment, community, consumption, justice and sustainability…
Posted in Book Reviews, Features | Tagged american dream, Anti-Consumerism, book review, Christan faith and sustainability, Christian discipleship, christian faith, Christian faith and gardening, Community and Ecclesia, Consumerism, economy, environmentalism, farmers market, Gardening, global, global justice, GOD, Intentional Living, Jesus, justice, justice economy, local, localism, missional, sabbath economics, suburbs, Sustainability, Sustainable Living |
By Thomas Turner on 04/05/2011
We are reminded that we are to cultivate an agricultural and communal vision that marries the wisdom from the past with a view towards the distant future. If the result is unorthodox and against the popular opinion of the day- than so be it- we are contrarian as a means to enact a restoration of what has been broken…
Posted in Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged agrarian, community gardens, contrarian agrarian, culturemaking, eco-agriculture, farming, Homesteading, intellectual agrarian, literature, local food, localism, Mad Farmer, permaculture, poetry, rethinking agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture, unorthodox agriculture, urban homesteading, Wendell Berry |
By Jason Fowler on 03/06/2011
One of my favorite (and the most fun) sustainable agriculture experiments that I have heard of is Wicked Delicate’s film and food project: Truck Farm- which is a “mobile community farm, a documentary about urban agriculture and – a public art and education project.”
Posted in Food & Agriculture, Videos, Voice of One Calling | Tagged agriculture, city farming, community farming in the city, community-reliant living, farming, food, foodie films, Gardening, local food, local food movement, localism, self-reliant city living, self-reliant living, Sustainable Agriculture, urban agriculture, urban farming, urban gardening, urban homestead, urban homesteaders, urban homesteading |
By Wendell Berry on 10/02/2010
“How can a sustainable local community (which is to say a sustainable local economy) function? I am going to suggest a set of rules that I think such a community would have to follow…”
Posted in Community and Ecclesia, Features, Money & Economics, Society and Culture | Tagged Community and Ecclesia, ecology, economic development, local community, local economy, localism, resilient community, resilient economy, sustainable communities, Wendell Berry |
By Jason Fowler on 09/28/2010
“We’re living in a totalitarian society. It’s not fascist in a political sense, but in the way that it’s economically organized. It’s organized for profit and for marketing. In that machinery there’s no real freedom…”
Posted in Excerpts, Features, Money & Economics, Society and Culture | Tagged book exerpt, christian community, Christianity and culture, Community and Ecclesia, corporations, corporatism, culture, Douglas Rushkoff, economics, economy, history, industrial revolution, Intentional Living, Life Inc., localism, mental slavery, prophetic voices, Springs of Contemplation, Theology, Thomas Merton, work |
By Ragan Sutterfield on 09/16/2010
Set aside for a moment your own experiences with school and think about how, given ample time and resources, you would go about educating children. What contexts would you put them in? Who would you want them to learn with and how?…Who would be their companions on the learning journey?…
Posted in Agrarian Notebook, Features, Society and Culture | Tagged alternative education, children, Community and Ecclesia, Education, front porch, industrialism, learning, localism, school, social critique, society |
By Leni Sorensen on 08/14/2010
Today rather then judge ourselves by some illusory benchmark of rural American self ’sufficiency’ we might better make an effort to be more self-reliant…we can discipline ourselves to participate in the world economy in a more conscious way and to strive for a level of self reliance appropriate to our life circumstance…
Posted in Features, Intentional Living | Tagged American history, Community and Ecclesia, community-reliance, economics, food production, Intentional Living, inter-dependence, interdependence, Justice, Leni Sorensen, local food movement, localism, rural living, self-reliance, self-reliant living, urban and rural homesteading, urban living |
By Ragan Sutterfield on 03/12/2010
How do we know where we are? Increasingly the answer is through the dot on a screen—the little man on a Google map, the arrow on a dashboard GPS…
Posted in Agrarian Notebook, Features, Society and Culture | Tagged anchors, Community and Ecclesia, cultural heritage, culture, culture of place, gps, local culture, localism, place, society |
