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Our voices matter. Our food systems matter. Our community matters. 🌱♥️

We had the opportunity to speak at Jacksonville City Council to show our support for Pathways for Urban Ag, formerly the Free to Garden Act.
 
We believe in building a food system that supports local growers, small businesses, and greater access to fresh, nourishing food. 

Change starts when we come together and make our voices heard. Anyone who knows me knows that public speaking terrifies me, but I’m so happy I overcame that fear to speak up. We’re proud to stand up for what matters and grateful to everyone working toward a healthier, more connected Jacksonville. 

Thank you to @man.in.overalls for encouraging me to speak up and for everything you’ve done for this amendment and for our community! 

#community #freetogardenact #eatlocal #jacksonville #supportlocal
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So, friends, every day do something
  that won’t compute. Love the Lord.
 Love the world. Work for nothing.
 Take all that you have and be poor.
 Love someone who does not deserve it.
 Denounce the government and embrace
  the flag. Hope to live in that free
  republic for which it stands.
 Give your approval to all you cannot
  understand. Praise ignorance, for what man
  has not encountered he has not destroyed.

Ask the questions that have no answers.
 Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias.
 Say that your main crop is the forest
  that you did not plant,
 that you will not live to harvest.
 Say that the leaves are harvested
  when they have rotted into the mold.
 Call that profit. Prophesy such returns
  Put your faith in the two inches of humus
  that will build under the trees
  every thousand years.
 Listen to carrion – put your ear
  close, and hear the faint chattering
  of the songs that are to come.
 Expect the end of the world. Laugh.
 Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful
  though you have considered all the facts.

Go with your love to the fields.
 Lie down in the shade. Rest your head
  in her lap. Swear allegiance
  to what is nighest your thoughts.
 As soon as the generals and the politicos
  can predict the motions of your mind,
 lose it. Leave it as a sign
  to mark the false trail, the way
  you didn’t go. Be like the fox
  who makes more tracks than necessary,
 some in the wrong direction.
 Practice resurrection.

Excerpts from “Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front”
- Wendell Berry

#madfarmer #farmlife #bestlife #rain #grateful
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