Urban Agrarianism

For those of you who don't know Wendell Berry, below is a short introduction to his writing that I found quite appropriate for this site, taken from his article "The Agrarian Standard":

I don’t think that being landed necessarily means owning land...

In our time it is useless and probably wrong to suppose that a great many urban people ought to go out into the countryside and become homesteaders or farmers. But it is not useless or wrong to suppose that urban people have agricultural responsibilities that they should try to meet. And in fact this is happening. The agrarian population among us is growing, and by no means is it made up merely of some farmers and some country people. It includes urban gardeners, urban consumers who are buying food from local farmers, consumers who have grown doubtful of the healthfulness, the trustworthiness, and the dependability of the corporate food system—people, in other words, who understand what it means to be landless.

For a larger portion of this article and many more interesting reads, visit Orion Magazine.