Daniel Firth Griffith is a storyteller, a hunter-husbandman, and a lover of the wildwoods. An award-winning author of best-selling books such as Dark Cloud Country, Wild Like Flowers, and Boone, Daniel’s work focuses on regenerating relationship, seeking to reawaken the wild by becoming the wild itself. Daniel co-founded Timshel Wildland in 2015, an emergent wilding project in Central Virginia that is pioneering the modern convergence of “regenerative” agriculture and wildly autonomous living systems; he founded the Robinia Institute in 2018, a center for “regeneration’s” social emergence that is now a Savory Institute Hub and educational and outreach center; and in 2020, he co-founded Commons Provisions and its Common Wealth Network, a large collective and community of human-scale, local farms that serve their broader communities via the flagrantly decentralized and entirely disruptive distribution of locally-aggregated provisions and foods.
‘Regenerative’ Agriculture is Disunifying, and that is Okay
It is time for “regenerative food systems” to radicalize or get out of the way, to step aside and allow human-scale, disruptive, actually diverse and localized collectives to emerge and feed the world, one community by one community at a time.
May 23, 2023