Adam Wilson: Farming and feeding in the gift economy

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In the first days of the pandemic, farmer and writer Adam Wilson was offered $500k of inherited family money by a local community member to disentangle 113 acres of upstate New York grassland from the real estate market. This would be the first and last time the farm or anything grown on the farm would ever be sold. In this Tidings interview and through two weekly Substack newsletters (here and here)  farmer-writer Adam tells the story of the mutually sustaining relationships between humans and nonhumans that lie at the heart of the gift-based, non-market community farming and feeding that inspire the Sand River Community Farm and its promise that “this food is offered as a gift to anyone who is hungry for any reason.” (WPKN, December 11, 2024)

                    Art by Annie Bingham

 

 

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  1. what a fascinating…and humbling…and an almost foreign…model Adam is gifting in the seeding…composting …and fertilizing of nature under our feet while our stellar “intelligence” so artificially abandons hearts and souls…

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Born to German Jewish refugee physicians in Lahore (now Pakistan, then British India) Hazel has lived, studied and worked in many places–India, England, Australia, Israel and the United States. She makes her home in the woods of the eastern end of Long Island, New York where she produces the art of leafages, the radio sounds of Tidings and writes about growing up Jewish in Lahore. Read more about Hazel…

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