https://www.foodasaverb.com/post/farmers-speak-tariffs-bird-flu-funding-cuts-and-what-we-can-do
TLDR: There is a lot of tutored artist energy with farmers that I am not a fan of. The conversation continues to be on how we can support local farmers, but that is wrong. The conversation should be on how can we support ourselves. How can the everyday person reclaim their power and food sovereignty. The food system should be 1) home/neighborhood/community grown food/foraged/crafted 2) local (city) 3) local (state) 4) bulk source commodity items. We should be more focused on a paradigm shift, building a new (micro and hyperlocalized) food system.
We need more conversations on how to grow food, how to forage, how to bulk buy, save, how to ferment, what we should be eating and growing! How to forage, how to sustain ourselves and our neighbors - NOT on how to shift our dependency from big ag to, for now, smaller, local ag. Dependency is dependency.