October 05, 2009

Sitopia - The world shaped by food


What we eat is what we are. Developing a personal relationship with food was one of the main purposes of developing the Sovereign Garden. Being able to share our land with the RED Earth Descendants has taught me a lot about indigenous culture. This morning i was accumulating the statistics on the harvest of the experimental garden, as i prepare to distribute the fruits of this bountiful harvest.

Allow me to introduce a woman named Carolyn Steel. Her TED talk about the place of food in history demonstrates a valuable concept. It also develops a context to the history of civilization and where we may be going within our immediate future. Open Source Control of the trade routes is imperative for cities and rural areas to have manifest destiny over their own lives. We grow too large to maintain when we lose our heritage links to our own food.

The harvest results will need to be written up and documented properly. I plan to self-publish the results on the Existence website. If you would like to volunteer for peer review, i will send a copy of the file to you when it is in the draft and comment stage. Science needs to be shared with real people as the peers - i can't think of anyone more real than people who enjoy reading the context of thought and then developing action plans to build from. I have much pumpkin seed on the hoof and over 50 ears of seed grinding corn. Choices - what to Do, What to do.

1 comment:

dynomyte said...

I'd say the first thing to do is get the damned cows outa yer garden...