Farming In the Shadow of the Shadow State – The New Inquiry

Growing food and getting free in a world built for agricultural capital

When June came we were flooded. It wasn’t all that rainy, not by Seattle standards, but it didn’t stop for three grey weeks. The river swelled and almost everything we had planted was quietly blotted out, strangled in mud and reeds. Like many from my generation of recession-minted radicals, we had made a difficult choice to try something lonely, new, and slow — though hopefully not far in spirit from the port shutdowns and occupations of our youths. We would grow vegetables and test the idea of worker ownership, to see what either could do for liberation. And so we stood in a soggy farm, on re

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• Bruce Ding
• Sixian Lim

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