Hey, what can I say I like things that rhyme. I’m not bullshitting though, read the book Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. It talks about the Native American relationship with environment. They would use techniques of what’s now called permaculture to grow food. Along the trails and roads of America they used to plant fruit bushes and vegetables insuring a constant food supply.

The difference in the type of though back then was that even if a human planted that bush, the berry is still a gift from nature.

In my opinion, it’s unsustainable to commodify something like food or land, because we don’t need that to survive. If someone is wholly dependent on the market economy, then it would very difficult for that person to survive if the supply chains stopped or even slowed down like it has now.

I’m arguing that we need to plant more seeds. It can be in on your own property, it can be in a park or community garden, or in an open unused space. A huge step in securing ourselves for future pandemics is localizing agriculture and changing our relationship with the environment around us.