Wild Minds Weekly: 5 reasons this is the future.
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Hello friends,
It's hard explaining to most people why we're doing what we're doing, without going down the rabbit-hole of geopolitics, the mainstream agenda, and all the f*ckery going on in the pharmaceutical and food industries (as I found out this past weekend).
So instead here's 5 reasons decentralised communities built around regenerative farming are the future:
(without frightening your friends and family - my mum thinks I'm in a cult)
1. Improves your Health
This is the biggest one - everyone can relate to this. Regenerative farming and permaculture produces the highest-quality nutrition you can get. Unless you hunt your food, nothing beats grass-fed beef and lamb from a nutrition perspective. The eggs, chicken and pork are top quality and the organic vegetables are far superior to what you would get in the supermarket.
Regardless of what the the marketers will tell you, food that was made in a factory simply cannot compare (and why would you want to eat that slop anyway?).
2. Builds Community
Everyone knows about the loneliness epidemic.
Farming, especially regenerative farming, brings people together because
1) it's labour intensive so more people are required instead of machines.
2) it's small-scale so a tight-knit community naturally forms.
Your small-scale regenerative farm is not a faceless corporation run by a single rich man on a tractor, trying to suck you dry. It's a team of people working to provide you and your family with the best possible food.
Farmers are community builders.
3. Benefits the environment
Whatever your views on climate change, you can't deny that industrial processes have destroyed far too much of the earth.
Nevermind the mines and factories, mono-crop farming drains the soil of its nutrients over time and requires more and more artificial chemicals to produce poorer quality crops as the process continues.
Regenerative farming and permaculture is the opposite.
- Doesn't require chemicals. While you may sacrifice maximising yield in the short term, the soil quality improves and over time you produce greater and greater quantities of high-quality food as the soil quality improves.
- Removes carbon from the atmosphere. Healthy soil and grass acts as a carbon sink - pulling carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Billions are spent on climate-tech to try and convert sunlight to energy and pull carbon from the atmosphere (carbon-capture). This is literally what healthy plants and soil does.
A tree turns sunlight into wood, which you can burn to produce energy.
Grass turns sunlight into food, which a cow can eat and then you can eat it.
4. Purpose
Nobody goes into farming to make LOADS of cash.
That's not to say there isn't money to be made, but that's not why people go into it.
People get into farming for all sorts of reasons; because they care about the land, because they love working with animals, or because they want to give people access to higher-quality food and built community.
Whatever the reason, everyone asks themselves at some point, "what is my life about?" and farmers don't have to look very far to find an answer.
5. Provides your community with independence.
Food is a fundamental human need, whoever controls your access to that, controls you.
With a network of regenerative farms, all practicing in their own different way, if you find that one doesn't quite suit you in terms of values or methods, then you are free to find another.
You're not stuck with what's in the supermarket, and dependent on institutions to tell you what you can or can't eat.
Right now, who controls your food?
Who could deny you food if you didn't comply with arbitrary rules that nobody voted for?
Who has the power to put chemicals in your food that you didn't agree to?
If the answer scares you, then you know what to do.
Get some land, join a community farm, live well.
To your freedom and interdependence,
Wild Minds Community
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