How we are making any of it make sense

In capitalism, sharing knowledge rather than seeking profit appears irrational.

Sharing this video of our community’s infrastructure (a bridge that cuts 30 minutes off of our drive to town—when it’s not underwater) to illustrate some of our necessary boundaries.

We started this newsletter intending it to be something we could update from the farm—given our genuine lack of connectivity, electricity, aaand infrastructure—here we are trying to stick to it. Which means free newsletters more akin to social media posts, and leaving the long-form writing we’ve been researching behind a bummer of a paywall.

For us, it’s all about creating flexible containers. What are our current limitations? How do we realistically work within those confines? What is not supporting us within existing structures? How do we honor our bandwidth while working tirelessly for liberation?

How we are making any of it make sense? It feels like a struggle because in capitalism, sharing knowledge rather than seeking profit appears irrational. So, please enjoy a roundup of (some of) the last two years of our apparent irrationality.

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(an incomplete and irrational) Newsletter Roundup

We started this newsletter two years ago (!!) with our first papaya harvest:

First Papaya Harvest

But some of our trees are older than the occupation of Palestine:

Gaza Is Our Home

Want to learn more about solidarity? We’ve compiled resources for you:

On Solidarity

How did we get here? Check out our how-to on getting started:

How to get started 🌱

Part of getting started is with small, manageable steps:

Building Slow

But another part is about listening:

On Listening

Our community is really what makes any of this possible:

TL;DR a story about how we collect water

Especially when we don’t agree with one another:

The Decolonize Puerto Rico T-shirt

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Illustration by Alex Matzke. A colorful colored pencil drawing of maraca seed pods. The plants do well without us doing anything for them. Because the plants are setup in a spot they like, with access to plenty of water, they thrive.

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Deterrents as a way to move with nature, instead of against it:

Deterrents as relationship

Read this one and

Steven Casanova

’s to get the full experience:

Notes from two years without a fridge

Making our daily bread with context instead of ignorance:

Our Daily Bread

Because ignorance is a choice:

Choose your fighter

We hope you are thinking of others:

Think of Others

And if you’ve made it this far, we have some nosy ass questions for you (based on what

yejin’s grown-up xanga

poses on instagram):

Nosy ass questions

Even further reading, check out our Living in the Future newsletters here: