# @raody_11 on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CEBXen_pVUv
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/59943566-raody-11-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-08-18T06:55:27.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Swapnil Rao (@raody_11) — https://gondola.cc/raody_11

## Caption

"All the world's problems can be solved in a garden."
- Geoff Lawton 
Food security was what propelled the first agri-technological revolution thousands of years ago. It elevated  our species from Hunter gatherers to settlers and was the birth of modern civilization as we know it. But we took it too far. The existing dominant capitalistic system stretches out this simple act of "growing food to it's consumption" into long complex supply chains that create unimaginable excess and wastage. Why? So that the profits can be aggregated towards a few in the center who keep getting richer. What's worse is that this system is dangerously extractive - leaving behind a carnage of ecology and prcious life. 
And what do we finally get out of it? Food laced with dangerous chemicals that's lacking nutrients and doesn't even taste good. It just "looks" good. 
Farmers drown in debt buying all the GMO seeds and pesticides(without which nothing grows on their land because the soil is destroyed by the very same chemical pesticides and fertilizers) and commit suicide. This is the viscious food cycle that we are trapped in. 
And the solution is embarrassingly simple. It has to be a bottom up approach - kitchen gardens, community farms, terrace gardens, society gardens. Food can be easily grown by the community and it helps bring everyone closer - bonus! 
This model helps you answer, what I believe, are the three most important questions everyone must be asking - 🤔Who grows our food? 
🤔Where is our food grown? 
🤔How is our food grown? 

We are what we eat. 

#grow #growyourown #kitchengarden #community #food #growyourownfood #permaculture #regenerativeagriculture #nature #simplicity #slowliving #slowlife

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growyourown, nature, growyourownfood, permaculture, kitchengarden, food, slowlife, regenerativeagriculture, grow, slowliving, simplicity, community

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