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Renewing the foodshed: seeking the shalom of our communities

Seeking shalom: Renewing the Regional Foodshed

By Jason Fowler on 01/20/2012

I’m not sure the exact moment that this happen but at some point over the past five years I became passionate about food and agriculture…This long journey in exploring issues of food, health and agriculture (and how they all relate) has also coincided with a deeper spiritual journey…

Posted in Features, Food & Agriculture, Voice of One Calling | Tagged agriculture, christian faith, community renewal, food, food system, foodshed, GOD, Gospel, Jesus, kingdom of GOD, Land and Table, local food, local food movement, shalom, Sustainable Agriculture, Wendell Berry | 1 Response

The reality of our interdependence is a gift from GOD (click for original image source)

The Commonwealth of the Body

By Ragan Sutterfield on 01/19/2012

A woman’s body is not her own, a babies body is not her own…a man’s body is not his own—they are interconnected in a network of gifts—internal and external to the body. The human person is not private property…it is a commonwealth…

Posted in Agrarian Notebook, Features | Tagged belonging, commonwealth, Community and Ecclesia, economy, family, health, household, Intentional Community, membership, shalom, Wendell Berry | 1 Response

We are the Mad Farmer (your face here)

The Mad Farmer: Wendell Berry’s Agrarian Poetic (Part 5)

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 | Leave a response

The Mad Farmer: Wendell Berry’s Agrarian Poetic (Part 4)

The Mad Farmer: Wendell Berry’s Agrarian Poetic (Part 4)

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 | Leave a response

The Household is the Microcosm of All Community (orginal art by Jean-François Millet (II))

The Mad Farmer: Wendell Berry’s Agrarian Poetic (Part 3)

By Thomas Turner on 01/26/2011

“A man who is in the traditional sense a good farmer is husbandman and husband, the begetter and conserver of the earth’s bounty, but he is also…a nurturer of life. His work is domestic: he is bound to the household…the household is the microcosm of all community.

Posted in Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged agrarian, Christian agrarian, Community and Ecclesia, Consumerism, culture, culturemaking, family, farming, household, industrial agriculture, intellectual agrarian, local, local culture, Mad Farmer, marriage, place, poetry, society, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Living, Wendell Berry | Leave a response

Joel Salatin, Wendell Berry and others call us to faithfulness in eating and agriculture (montage: J Fowler)

Worthy of Our Meat

By John Pattison on 01/13/2011

Salatin is representative of how the ethical eating conversation has changed even within American Christianity…When Salatin was an undergraduate…in the seventies, students were warned to avoid “the food cult” of the natural food movement…

Posted in Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged agrarian living, chickens, christian faith, farming, food, food and faith, food ethics, Gene Logsdon, Joel Salatin, Virginia, vocation, Wendell Berry | Leave a response

There is power in a single plow (click image for source, montage: J Fowler)

The Mad Farmer: Wendell Berry’s Agrarian Poetic (Part 2)

By Thomas Turner on 12/01/2010

“The Mad Farmer Revolution” poeticizes what a “revolution” of farming would be, which is Berry’s way to rewrite the wrongs of industrial agriculture. As the bonds of the local community unraveled with the industrialization of agriculture farm towns across America simply boarded up and became ghost towns…

Posted in Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged agri-business, agriculture, American history, books, community-reliance, corporatism, cultural critique, culture, economy, farming, food, industrial revolution, Mad Farmer, resilient economy, resilient living, self-reliance, Sustainable Agriculture, the agrarian mind, Wendell Berry | Leave a response

Wendell Berry's Mad Farmer: prophetic voice to a disintegrating culture

The Mad Farmer: Wendell Berry’s Agrarian Poetic (Part 1)

By Thomas Turner on 11/22/2010

The Mad Farmer serves as Wendell Berry’s poetic response to the changing cultural and agricultural times he conveys in his expose of modern agriculture, The Unsettling of America…

Posted in Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged agriculture, books, cultural critique, culture, economy, Mad Farmer, poetry, resilient economy, resilient living, Sustainable Agriculture, the agrarian mind, Wendell Berry | 2 Responses

Seek the economic shalom of your community (montage: J Fowler)

Wendell Berry: 17 Rules For A Sustainable Local Community

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 | 1 Response

Farming As A Spiritual Discipline by Ragan Sutterfield (a must read)

Farming As A Spiritual Discipline [Book Review]

By Jason Fowler on 08/02/2010

Despite what the title may infer, it is not just for farmers- it is for all of us who long for the coming shalom of GOD’s New Earth. He begins by inviting city dwellers to get their hands in God’s dirt…

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