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 Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 7:34 pm Post subject: What can we learn from the local food movement? |
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Linda gave us some food for thought in the codex thread:
| rosemarygoddess wrote: | Alot of the current climate and issues have to do with big business and the pharmaceutical industry. I have been involved in the local food movement for many years and have been doing a lot of reading about approaches that local food groups have taken around the world to build strength and new approaches to protecting food diversity. Alot of the issues in the food movement have come about because of agribusiness and so have that in common with the herbal community. I think that there are many paralells that can be made between the food movement the issues facing herbalists today.
I do not have concrete ideas in my mind, but I suspect there is a new cutlure of herbalism that can be created and that the food movement has something of a model to offer here ie CSA's etc. I suspect this would be a culture that celebrates local herbalsim and diversity. I imagine it would focus on creating a new culture, which relies on traditional herbalism for it's base.
Vandana Shiva's work around the world and in India has offered me a lot of "food" for thought. And I often am wondering how this information applies to the world of herbalism. I think the food movement has a lot to offer us in terms of looking at new possibilites, while at the same time resisting current trends.
This is a paradigm shift, as we can only focus on pushing against what is happening for so long, before we get tired and hopeless. One thing for sure is we need to create cutlures of herbalism that are sensitive to our communities, but that do not strengthen the medicalization of herbalism. |
So let's think about this. What can we learn from the local food movement? What would a local herb movement look like?
In the last year or so I've heard a lot of people toss around ideas about herbal CSAs, Co-ops, etc. Does anyone know of models that are already working? How are they going? What's been learned so far?
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