Praxis of Change
Our Beliefs
Pairing deep relationships based on trust, with social movements rooted in solidarity and reciprocity, is one of the strongest drivers of change.
Establishing a common ground and building deep relationships can be cultivated through sharing food, stories, struggle, & ceremony.
Cooperative networks have vast capacity to build bridges across divergent perspectives around common goals.
Real cooperation requires the ability to understand the difference between the common good versus individual gain.
The commons is a practice of sharing the earth’s resources and knowledge to serve the common good and build collective resilience.
A diversity of individuals within communities and a diversity of organisms within ecosystems makes collective resilience stronger.
Collective resilience requires collective healing.
Collective healing necessitates truth and reconciliation through reparations, anti-racism, restorative justice, and rematriation.
Analysis of Root Causes
Industrialized agriculture is built on a foundation of colonialism, imperialism, patriarchy, white supremacy, and extractive, neoliberal capitalism. Ultimately, all of these tactics have shaped values, policies, practices, and mentalities to consolidate decision-making power and control of land and resources through state-sanctioned genocide and exploitation. Oppression, commodification, and domination of life have on the surface, benefited a select few, while the negative impacts are widely felt in social inequity, ecological collapse, climate crisis, health pandemics, and emotional and spiritual malaise.
What will Bring About Change
In order to transform, we believe we need intersectional and evolving partnerships to engage in movement building for systems change. We believe the food movement can gain momentum through deeper understanding of intersectional power and oppression dynamics, and through active participation in the dismantling of structural racism and patriarchal-colonial-capitalist values, internally and externally. It is our belief that creating regenerative, cooperative, feminist, queer, and BIPOC-led commons which center Black, Indigenous and Trans voices will provide this transformation.
Our Role
Our role in supporting change is rooted in building cooperative relationships and networks for the horizontal exchange of technical agroecological farming and marketing skills, and for political education that encourages strategy building and the critical analysis of injustices within the food system. We are committed to the formation of popular education models and of cooperative practices and networks for regenerative land stewardship and rematriated land commons for equitable, regenerative, and healing food systems.
