To Feed Each Other in 2026 Is an Act of Defiance

The American grassland prairies were some of the most nutrient dense and valuable soils on the planet. These soils didn’t just happen, it took over ten thousand years slowly building with the help of organic matter deposits and interactions with bison and the indigenous people. Then without even a second thought, colonizers came and threw everything positive out hte window, because they were so focused on their greed and desire for those natural resources to be their resources. It only took about one hundred years (or four or five generations) for those soils to be decimated to the point that they are not being kept artificially useful through agrochemical inputs.

Why should we care about this? Our communities and country are only as resilient as our food system. So many different organizations and news outlets are now sharing just how disastrous these choices have and will continue to be in the next five years. It’s likely that we will see more and more empty shelves at grocery stores, and what is available will cost a pretty penny.

My intention with this article isn’t to instill fear without a solution. I do believe wholeheartedly that if you are going to share a problem, it’s also essential to offer a potential solution, so here we go.

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It wasn’t more than fifty years ago that most of the country ran on small and medium sized farms with regional mills, local processing plants, and distribution networks that would serve a single town or region. While it might not have been the most efficient, it was far more resilient, because if a harmful pathogen ended up in the foodstuffs, it would be localized rather than spread across the country. Which means that there were far fewer wasted resources being pitched into the trash and fewer humans harmed.

Of course, then there was the desire for expediency and efficiency that came into play, and ultimately took over these small and medium sized operations to create a national system consolidated into only a handful of distribution centers and processing facilities. Just a few grain processors now run most of the corn and soy in the United States, and only four companies process nearly eighty-five percent of the beef. It seems to be a fantastic idea until contamination happens or something breaks and thousands of pounds of meat or other commodities are left sitting and potentially roting.

Right now everyone is worried about the Cyclospora outbreak and how it seems to be everywhere, but the cause or source has yet to be found. We’ve also experienced many E. coli outbreaks in the meat processing industry leading to thousands of people becoming sick or dying. So much of this could be avoided if our focus as a country was less on the financial gain and more about the wellbeing of the people, animals and land.

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We made this trade with the desire for short-term rewards without any forethought or care for who or what it might destroy forever, and now we have no choice but to face the music and see just how devastating these choices have been and will become.

I don’t want to scare you or encourage your system to go into a state of freeze and shut down. This is one of the most harmful things happening right now is the pure overwhelm of our nervous systems from the constant “breaking news” and “unprecedented events” without also having solutions in the mix. That’s why it is always my goal and desire to offer real ways to take action so that we can find a better future.

It absolutely looks like we are at the point of no return, but we can shift things in the other direction and it is essential that we start now.

So here is how we start:

We find locals growing food. Go on community forums or ask your neighbors if they have a garden this year. See if you can exchange some of the abundance. Seek out people in your community who are struggling to keep food on the table and offer any excess to them. Look for local farms and farmers markets to support. Grow your own food if you can, even if it’s a small container of greens on the windowsill or a five-gallon bucket with potatoes. Focus on supporting those in your community who are doing what they do out of a love for the land and those who live there. Find the seed libraries, boxes of produce on the curb, or neighbors selling eggs.

Pay attention to the trees in your neighborhood that bear fruit. There is an app called Falling Fruit, which was built by foragers who wanted to share a free resource to find millions of different fruit trees around the country. So much of the food we do grow often goes to waste, because no one knows about it or it’s less than perfect.

I know that these acts and interactions seem far too small to create a giant shift in our country, but small acts done consistently over time, on a large scale, create lasting change (If you are interesting in learning more about this topic, I highly encourage reading the book Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Dan and Chip Heath). While greed, consolidation and monoculture will continue to be a part of this food system until it completely crumbles, we can start the process of stepping outside of it right now.

If this is a concept that you are interested in or if you have any additional ideas to offer, please leave a comment. We are building this future together, and you are an essential part of what comes next.

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She Who Wakes: Reclaiming Our Witchborn Birthright

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June 24, 2025

In an era where our bodies and voices are battlegrounds, from reproductive justice to trans rights, remember that every soul carries the medicine of the Witch archetype. To reclaim it is to strike back against fear, dogma, and erasure.