Food and Land Team

Diagnosis: Most children today believe food comes from grocery stores (it grows in the ground); that ‘outside’ is where you have to wear sunscreen (being outside is normal); and that forests are where kids get eaten by bears (just, no). Americans, like all people, do not in fact live on the internet—we live on earth. Deep friendships, a sense of place, the instinct to check in on a struggling neighbor: all depend on a connection to physical reality.

Team mandate: Make nature normal again. Seed New Athens’ culture by connecting the city to the land it rests upon, local ecosystems, and the seasons. Fight the artificial division between the ‘human’ and the ‘natural’ world. Ensure every home is within walking distance of a natural space. Set the foundation for physical health by re-personalizing the relationship between residents and farmers and prioritizing the availability of unprocessed, locally-grown food and meat.

The test (kidding not kidding): more people should know the ‘pumpkin guy’ who made Halloween possible than the size of Kim Kardashian’s ass.

Lay the foundation for New Athens’ culture by connecting land and food around you…. Talk to anyone old enough to remember it and they lived in a way that was defined by their specific geography, from local swimming holes to a food culture deeply shaped by the environment around them. Shifting away from digital to physical geographies also helps shape an attachment to local culture and neighbors and away from transient online mass living. As online life increasingly comes to replace physical socialization, these experiences remain fundamentally local and embodied.

Activists told us ‘climate justice is trans justice is Palastinian justice,’ so Trump got elected, but

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Healthy food and connection to land. Physical health through tight integration with local food production. Cultivate love and care for land; deepen (or create) roots in the fields and forests of North America.]

The quality and quantity of fresh water and soil in North America are plummeting, a catastrophe decades in the making that will reach crisis within most Americans’ lifetimes. Regardless of the origins of climate change, ask any farmer: our ability to grow food is on a timer, and facets of our continent’s ecosystems are breaking down. And we don’t have much to show for it: Our ancestors would consider much of the food we eat poison.

• create bulk purchasing for healthy food grown in region, starting with school system
• HEALTHY version of blood and soil instinct on the right
• drawing contrast to digital life and saying it's important to reintroduce people to concept of physical place
• people should love the land/place
• this intersects with city planning
• work with business launch team and governance team team to bring down costs of healthy farming
• walkability in natural settings
• anthony bordain's thing :D
• the feeling hikers get in nature should be a feeling everyone gets in as much of the city/region as possible
• the gardening instinct is good. more of that and everything it represents