Episodes

  • April 2023 | Brown Water Utopia

    April 2023 | Brown Water Utopia
    Apr 26 2023
    In this episode of Partisan Gardens, we explore the competing utopias at stake in the struggle to stop Cop City in Atlanta. Cop City is itself a grim utopia, a vision concocted by cops and politicians of a depopulated, fake city that will actually bend to their will.  On the other side are the diverse...
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  • October 2022: The State Monopoly on Hunger with Hannah Kass

    October 2022: The State Monopoly on Hunger with Hannah Kass
    Nov 7 2022
    This month on Partisan Gardens, we interviewed Hannah Kass, a food systems researcher and graduate student at University of Wisconsin – Madison.  Kass recently published an article in the Journal of Peasant Studies that aimed to extend radical critiques of contemporary food systems and efforts to reform them.  The article, “Food anarchy and the  State...
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  • August 2022 | A Foot in Both Worlds

    August 2022 | A Foot in Both Worlds
    Sep 1 2022
    For this episode, we share a candid and generative conversation between Kay and Sarah, shortly after World’s End, Sarah’s farm, hosted a week long group retreat. They share reflections on that experience, and the role of farms in hosting urban visitors. They touch on the strange idea of owning the land, reflecting on the concept...
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  • July 2022 | Learning From Bioregionalism, Part Two

    July 2022 | Learning From Bioregionalism, Part Two
    Jul 27 2022
    For this episode, we finish sharing an ambitious two-part interview with Doug, a life-long deserter, commune-dweller, and bioregionalist organizer currently living in western Canada. Doug is interviewed by his nephew, a contributor to a militant network of communes in the region. Doug continues to share invaluable recollections on the experience of living underground and in...
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  • June 2022 | Learning From Bioregionalism

    June 2022 | Learning From Bioregionalism
    Jun 30 2022
    This month, we begin sharing an ambitious two-part interview with Doug, a life-long deserter, commune-dweller, and bioregionalist organizer currently living in western Canada.  Doug is interviewed by his nephew, a contributor to a militant network of communes in the region. Doug shares invaluable recollections on the experience of living underground and in exile in Canada...
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  • May 2022 | The Neighborhood Planting Project

    May 2022 | The Neighborhood Planting Project
    May 26 2022
    Earlier this spring, people across the eastern half of the US organized neighborhood planting projects in order to widely distribute and plant food-bearing trees. Their motivations are diverse, and we’ll hear from a range of them in this episode, but these tree-planters are often hoping to build a more verdant, autonomous, resilient, common life in...
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  • April 2022 | The 2022 Earthbound Farmers Almanac 

    April 2022 | The 2022 Earthbound Farmers Almanac 
    Apr 29 2022
    This month’s Partisan Gardens is all about the Farmer’s Almanac, specifically the 2022 Earthbound Farmer’s Almanac. Our listeners are probably familiar with the old farmer’s almanac, with its planting charts, weather forecasts and random tidbits of folksy wisdom and jokes. It’s an artifact of an earlier time, probably not the first place our listeners go...
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  • March 2022 | The Grain Problem — Russian Agriculture and the Impact of War

    March 2022 | The Grain Problem — Russian Agriculture and the Impact of War
    Mar 30 2022
    This month, we spoke to Susanne Wengle, a professor at Notre Dame who researches post-Soviet political and economic transformation in Russia.  Her second book is Black Earth, White Bread; a Technopolitical History of Russian Agriculture and Food. We were eager to hear her perspective on the history of agriculture in Russia and Ukraine and the current war’s ripple effects...
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