What Could Possibly Go Right? #18 Severine von Tscharner Fleming: Healing the Land for Our Collective Good
Severine von Tscharner Fleming is a farmer, activist, and organizer based in Downeast Maine. She runs Smithereen Farm, a MOFGA certified organic wild blueberry, seaweed, and orchard operation which hosts summer camps, camping, and educational workshops.
She is a founder and board member of Agrarian Trust and current director of the Greenhorns, a 13 year old grassroots organization whose mission is to recruit, promote, and support the incoming generation of farmers in America.
Severine brings her influences and analogies from the agricultural space to “What Could Possibly Go Right?”, including:
- The “desire of humans to move geographically”, including a current fleeing and resettling driven by climate, ambition, hopes, and fears.
- The concepts of land commons and ocean commons, including for other cultures who care for crops and benefit collectively without private ownership.
- The need to transition stewardship of land owned by older generations to young farmers, and how to pass this on through purchase, gifting or passing on estates.
- That the word subsistence and its connotations may distract from the “shiny, glistening abundance”.
- That those willing to do the reparations and healing of the land for our collective good should earn an enduring right to subsistence.
Resources
- Greenhorns greenhorns.org
- Agrarian Trust agrariantrust.org
- Global Earth Repair Conference globalearthrepairfoundation.org
- Somali Bantu Association somalibantumaine.org
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Website: greenhorns.org
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