This month’s AgStackers Roundtable was exactly what I want this space to be.
Open, practical, and generous, with people sharing what they are building and what they are up against, without forcing everyone into the same box. Huge thanks to Liz Reitzig, Tim Connolly, and Farmer Sam👩🌾🐑🌱 for bringing so much clarity, warmth and wisdom to the conversation, from policy and advocacy to the lived reality of producing food and trying to make it add up.
We talked about food security and food sovereignty, and the language that helps consumers find good food without flattening the complexity of how it is produced. We also kept coming back to resilience, and to the idea that small acts, done locally and repeated, can be a form of defiance and a way of rebuilding something more durable. Right near the end Tim found himself glad that AgStackers never landed on a single big category. What we have now is richer and still a little undefined, and I think that is part of why it can hold so many perspectives without turning into factions.
If you are new here, start with the AgStackers Directory. Liz Reitzig has built something genuinely useful, and it now includes 56 writers, organised by location and subcategory so you can find the voices that match your patch of land and your questions.
The Directory now also has a bulletin board. If you have something to share, an event, a callout, a resource, a question you want eyes on, or a post you are proud of, add it there so the right people can find it.
The community newsletter goes out on 11th April. If you want your work included, send me links to your recent posts you want the community to read, plus a single line on why it matters right now.
If you want to join the next AgStackers Roundtable on 12th April, that is for paid subscribers. If you have been reading along quietly and thinking, these are my people, this is the simplest way to step into the room and help keep it going.
