Queering the Economics of Farming | Hannah Breckbill | TEDxPermaQueer

Описание: Hanna Breckbill takes the time to explore and reflect on her work in creating alternative models of land stewardship and living, worker owned economies through a queer lens. The co-operative, worker owned farm called Humble Hands Harvest which Hanna was a part of starting is a women owned and led initiative and is a living experiment of regenerative agriculture and alternative economics on Ho-Chuck land, presently known as Descorah, Iowa. Hannah Breckbill is a first-generation farmer in her 9th season on Ho-Chunk land, presently known as Decorah, Iowa. Her cooperative farm, Humble Hands Harvest, defies the norms of the Iowa landscape: they grow vegetables, pork, and lamb for their local community, pigs and sheep rotationally graze in the fresh air, they are worker-owned, they are woman-owned, they are perennializing and eliminating tillage, and they hold capital in a unique way that aims to be a commons. The farm is a living experiment in regenerative agriculture, cooperative culture, and alternative economies. They also host an annual Queer Farmer Convergence that gathers a community of queer farmers to celebrate each other and interrogate the heteropatriarchy in agriculture. Hannah is a fierce advocate for land access for beginning farmers, because she believes that distributed and diverse ownership and control are essential not only to collective climate resilience, but also to thriving rural economies. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx