Common Intention - Draft Note Agrarian Renaissance

AGRARIAN RENAISSANCE
RECONNECTING PEOPLE, LAND & FOOD
Intention

The intention behind Agrarian
Renaissance is not just to align the
pioneering actors in the science
and lore of organics, permaculture,
biodynamics, compassionate
husbandry, biological pest control,
care farming, youth socialisation, etc.
It is to combine all these into
commercially proven, replicable
models that will (like beneficial
viruses) change the genetic structure
of each farm into the site at which
the Reconnection of People, Land and
Food takes root.

That is why the farm as a centre
for therapy, enterprise, education
and leisure, the localisation and
networking of food distribution, and
the cross-marketing of all these, are
central to Agrarian Renaissance.
The Happy Coincidence

It is worthwhile, and profoundly
necessary, for every one of us to
consider and understand the full
implications and thoroughly negative
consequences of agriculture as it
is and has become. But a negative
analysis can never suffice as the basis
for positive, effective action.

Luckily, it just so happens that
agriculture which is biologically
sound (the fundamental imperative in
feeding people forever), also happens
to provide the perfect balance of
ingredients for a diet of the highest
levels of nutrition (suggesting a
solution to our endemic levels of
obesity, diabetes and heart disease)
as well as the perfect balance of
ingredients for all of the world’s
finest national cuisines - plenty of
vegetables, maximum variety and not
too much meat.

This is an agriculture which would
provide varied jobs, on the land,
interacting with colleagues, customers
and the community.

It is built around diverse, buzzing
farms, markets, veg patches, stores,
pick-up points and home deliveries,
all with their own characters and
interactions.

It demands a pattern of local
transactions where money circulates
almost endlessly, and it requires a
range of different jobs, at a range of
different levels, within a small area.

It promises to reorient culture and
daily life, so that we can remember
the importance of the land, the
relationships, and the natural systems
on which we depend.

It also happens to produce an idyllic
countryside - rows of trees and
hedgerows, people in the fields,
patchwork crops, copses, and grazing
animals.
In the end, this is as aesthetic as it is
scientific, emotive, or simply intuitive.

It’s about great food, great farming,
and a great life, for everyone and
everything, forever.

It’s just right, and we must do it.