A whole new community approach needed..

This presentation by Pam Warhurst reminded me to come back to the fact that the food production within my new Woodfordia needs to be about a whole new paradigm of food production and lifestyle. It can't just be the same lifestyles with slightly different farming techniques.

The food needs to be everywhere, not just in certain plots that I think on the map will work best for growing food, around houses, backyard gardens and everywhere.

Everyone in the community plays a part in the 'puzzle' as she called it, they're all pieces that fit together in their own way to complete the puzzle. Whether it is in growing, teaching, cooking or some other role it doesn't mean everyone does or knows everything or the same thing. I need to think further about this 'first person experience' and the 'characters' in my future. They need to be completely submerged in the lifestyle of farming, creating streets that are lined with gardens and agriculture rather than centralised systems.

On top of this she reiterated the point that I already felt was the most important, and that is the impact an importance of education in this paradigm shift. My new community is about education and changing our ways and it's also about spreading this knowledge base on, spreading it into the urban area, not just when replanting these new communities.