Land Access Strategy: Tablehurst and Plaw Hatch Community Farm, UK
The Tablehurst and Plaw Hatch Community Farm initiative was born in 1994 when it appeared that biodynamic Tablehurst Farm might be lost after more than 25 years of careful husbandry by Emerson College. The college could no longer support the farm and, following a major community fund-raising drive, agreed to sell the farm assets to the community while retaining ownership of the land.
Creating an Agrarian Commons
How do we cooperatively own and steward land for food sovereignty, soil and ecosystem health, community benefit, service to the watershed, and more? Agrarian Trust’s proposed method is a new form (legal, cultural, and financial) of land ownership to support land access for the next generation of farmers, and we make the path by walking it.
Growing Our Team: Welcoming Our New Staff
We’re excited to share some great news with you on our hiring efforts to grow our organization and further our mission in 2018!
A Digital Map Leads to Reparations for Black and Indigenous Farmers
The map’s creators say they envision an equitable distribution of land and resources in the country.
Re-imagining Politics Through the Lens of the Commons
Why are the more wholesome alternative visions so scarce and scarcely believable?
Ford Foundation President: To address the climate crisis, we must address inequality
Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation, recently published a profound statement about the importance of addressing inequality to fight climate change. Offering insight into these intertwined issues, which have become the defining challenges of our time, he focuses on the fundamental role of land.
Let’s Skip the War Part—and Go Right to Reparations
Because ecological destruction affects both friend and foe, the use of bombs, drones and missiles is akin to shooting oneself in the foot…and the lungs and the spirit. War undermines that which most of the world’s people aspire to: physical and financial security; satisfying work and social ties; clean air, food and water. Perhaps we can skip the violence and tragedy and blowback and move directly to restitution: reparations for damage sustained.
Biodynamic Farming Opportunity at Live Power Community Farm, California
Farming opportunity for skilled vegetable growing couple or individual at Live Power Community Farm, a 50 acre biodynamic farm founded by Stephen and Gloria Decater in 1973 in Covelo, California.
Making Land Access For Young Ones in the Buffer Zone
Fascinating article about preferential treatment in USDA grants programs by those landowners who move Conservation Reserve Program land to “beginning farmer” opportunities.
How Indigenous Land-use Practices Inform the Current Sharing Economy
How Indigenous Land-Use Practices Inform the Current Sharing Economy by Aaron Fernando The concept of ownership is a social contract that allows certain individuals and groups to have rights to certain resources or items while excluding others from that access. Under the mainstream conception of private property, both the ownership of land and anything built […]