Resilience Food Stories

‘In short it's a democratic civil society system that buys and manages land, considering it not as a commodity but as a common good that will not be sold again.’

‘I hope that one day farmers will change and that the world will change as well.’

‘It's the land that feeds us’

‘These ancestral common-sense methods, nowadays called organic agriculture, are necessary if we are to keep the earth healthy. There’s no need for any scientific research that might prove the fact in order to convince me of it.’

‘Because we were given a nature which was virgin, it's important to return it virgin to the next generation.’

‘Biodynamic farming is simply about finding the fundamentals just as our grandparents did.’

‘We have something more sustainable that we care for and that also makes us happy, it’s really fun and in the end it’s something good that we like doing.’

‘The switch from conventional to organic agriculture was fundamental because our living conditions have improved.’

‘We don't want to own the land we just want to be the users of a common resource.’

‘What I want to leave to future generations is a piece of the earth that’s healthy in every respect.’

‘In the end I feel myself more farmer then engineer.’

‘The land feeds the animals, the animals feed the land’

‘We have opted for a system of farming with honey meadows to ensure the happiness of the bees and the sheep that graze there.’

'We’ll have to make our cities more resilient and demonstrate resilience ourselves as we face the problems that are now coming our way.'