“All of the issues are
interconnected,” says Krishna on a sultry summer afternoon, when asked about
Solitude Farm’s Circle Garden Project. “The issue of water, the issue of land
use, the question of why there is a stockpile of Auroville-grown rice sitting
at Annapurna Farm, the question of our relationship to food and where it comes
from. They are all connected and only by bringing people together in a
different way will we begin work on them and allow change to manifest.”
The Circle Garden Project, initiated
in 2010 by a small team at Solitude Farm, began as one fun way to bring people
together. They made videos called “The Rock and Roll Circle Garden Show” and
posted them on YouTube, showing the process of creating simple, abundant
kitchen gardens in your own backyard with some friends. “And then,” Krishna
says, “One day I realized that this is something that people really love. You
could see that people are crying to rediscover the relationship with their
food. And...
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