Subsistence Farming with Ashley Colby
Channel: Inside Ideas
Date: 2022-02-06

Ashley Colby is my guest on Episode 153 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.

Ashley is the Executive Director of the Rizoma Foundation. She earned her Ph.D. in Environmental Sociology with a focus on household food production in the United States. Her dissertation was published as a book: Subsistence Agriculture in the US: Connecting to work, nature, and community. It was in the process of completing her research that Ashley discovered the creativity in individuals creating diverse informal economies unnoticed by policymakers and politicians. Ashley is interested in and passionate about the myriad creative ways in which people are forming new social worlds in resistance to the failures of late capitalism and resultant climate disasters. Ashley is a qualitative researcher, so she tends to focus on the informal spaces of innovation.  Ashley’s focus has turned to Rizoma Foundation, where she seeks to accelerate local, decentralized networks of people who can get us to the next iteration of society, and fast.

https://www.rizomafoundation.org/
https://www.loconomy.org/
https://www.amazon.com/Subsistence-Agriculture-Reconnecting-Routledge-SCORAI-Sustainable/dp/0367458721
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashley-colby-rizoma/
https://scorai.net/
https://rizomafieldschool.com/
https://twitter.com/RizomaSchool
https://twitter.com/RizomaFound
https://twitter.com/LoconomyNow

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00:00 - Subsistence Farming 
00:21 - Introduction Inside Ideas guest Ashley Colby on Episode 153 with Marc Buckley
02:07 - The Subsistence Agriculture book 
05:10 - Small scale production
11:25 - Moving to Uruguay
15:45 - Stepping away from Academia
17:20 - Living as an example
21:50 - Like a homesteader
23:08 - Low carbon and low energy living - Low carbon Future
24: 03 - Dual-process
26:32- Disagreeing with environmentalists
30:30 - Educating politics and legislators
31:20 - Small food production
32:00 - Farmer's study in the Subsistence Agriculture book
41:02 - Same food different meaning
Sharing knowledge and practices
46:38 - Eric Toensmeier, Carbon Farming on Inside Ideas ep 108, https://youtu.be/Awg24rpzA0k
48:19 - What is a subsistence food producer, SFP?
51:58 - Takeaways from Subsistence Agriculture book
54:20 - Reconnecting to work, nature, and community
54:55 - Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
58:50 - Neo-Liberalism
1:00:50 - Civilization collapse
1:04:07 - Dual processing, Morris Berman
1:06:14 - The Detroit example
1:08:33 - Hierarchy models
1:18:58 - Local economies
1:21:44 - What does a world that works for everyone look like for you?
1:23:38 - Rizoma Field School
1:26:45 - Homesteader Justin Rhodes on Inside Ideas, ep 149
https://youtu.be/e76KS4o7ulI
1:27:30 - Sustainable Takeaway
1:28:41 - What I wished I knew from the start