On Partisan Gardens, we know climate catastrophe is here, and it’s our food system’s dead end. Here we see sustainable fine dining and ecological destruction, hunger and obesity, extreme wealth and immense poverty. We can’t wait any longer — for a tech breakthrough, climate apocalypse, the revolution, or a reform of the USDA loan system. We must be frank about reality, to reckon with our options. We must choose sides, and become partisans of a new way to live and grow food.
April 26, 2023
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In this episode of Partisan Gardens, we explore the competing utopias at stake in the struggle to stop Cop City in Atlanta. Cop City is itself a grim utopia, a vision concocted by cops and politicians of a depopulated, fake city that will actually bend to their will. On the other side are the diverse utopian dreams of the movement to defend the Weelaunee forest, which connect that forest to visions of Black liberation, collective care, food autonomy for the surrounding neighborhoods, and a world without police. Underlying all these dreams is the long historical reality of Muscogee inhabitation…
November 7, 2022
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This month on Partisan Gardens, we interviewed Hannah Kass, a food systems researcher and graduate student at University of Wisconsin – Madison. Kass recently published an article in the Journal of Peasant Studies that aimed to extend radical critiques of contemporary food systems and efforts to reform them. The article, “Food anarchy and the State monopoly on hunger,” has generated excitement and debate across academic and grassroots food advocates and researchers. As a contribution to this discussion, we asked Hannah to share some of the background of the article and to dig in on some of its most charged…
September 1, 2022
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For this episode, we share a candid and generative conversation between Kay and Sarah, shortly after World’s End, Sarah’s farm, hosted a week long group retreat. They share reflections on that experience, and the role of farms in hosting urban visitors. They touch on the strange idea of owning the land, reflecting on the concept of ownership, and how that has driven World’s End Farm to seek a cooperative model. They discuss the transition from a for-profit farming model to a donations-based approach to growing food, treating farms as powerful spaces for change. But there is also a balance…
July 27, 2022
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For this episode, we finish sharing an ambitious two-part interview with Doug, a life-long deserter, commune-dweller, and bioregionalist organizer currently living in western Canada. Doug is interviewed by his nephew, a contributor to a militant network of communes in the region. Doug continues to share invaluable recollections on the experience of living underground and in exile in Canada and Sweden, while refusing US military service in the Vietnam war, the different horizons of the counter-culture in North America and Scandinavia, and the origins of the bioregionalist movements. We are excited to share the interview due to the many lessons…
June 30, 2022
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This month, we begin sharing an ambitious two-part interview with Doug, a life-long deserter, commune-dweller, and bioregionalist organizer currently living in western Canada. Doug is interviewed by his nephew, a contributor to a militant network of communes in the region. Doug shares invaluable recollections on the experience of living underground and in exile in Canada and Sweden, while refusing US military service in the Vietnam war, the different horizons of the counter-culture in North America and Scandinavia, and the origins of the bioregionalist movements. We are excited to share the interview due to the many lessons and resonances Doug’s…
May 26, 2022
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Earlier this spring, people across the eastern half of the US organized neighborhood planting projects in order to widely distribute and plant food-bearing trees. Their motivations are diverse, and we’ll hear from a range of them in this episode, but these tree-planters are often hoping to build a more verdant, autonomous, resilient, common life in the face of growing climate chaos and the frailty of capitalist supply chains. The Nacogdoches Food Forest, one of the early models for the Neighborhood Planting Project, specifically sought, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, to create perennial abundance in order to better welcome…
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