A good friend of mine recently told me about the concepts from the Ringing Cedars book series – about a Siberian woman called Anastasia, her remarkable existence and her profound insights into life and a deeper purpose that mainstream humanity has long left behind.
As we watch the ever increasing left brain obsession of today’s society and the advancing technocratic AI 5G surveillance state, it’s good to be reminded that there are increasing groundswells of people inspired to return to a state of innate well-being, cooperation, positive creativity and ultimately to living in a deeply connected state with the natural world.
Anastasia is described as a descendant of a linage of people who have lived in the Siberian wilderness for an undetermined period of time. Existing in complete harmony and symbiosis with nature, she is the epitome of an uncorrupted and empowered human being with robust health, sensibilities and faculties that seem miraculous yet are latent and available to all of us beyond the veil of our conditioned responses and within the right brain’s inner silence.
Anastasia had a home in the wilderness that the author describes as ‘merging with nature and not easy to find, only betrayed by the fact that it was more beautiful and better taken care of than the surrounding forest glade’.
This got me to contemplating how we’ve been conditioned to identify contrast as duality everywhere. A typical example being the separation between farming land and ‘the environment’ – the idea that the two could be seen as one ecology that completely sustains itself and yields abundantly with minimal effort is not readily apparent. Anastasia’s realm existed in such harmonic symbiosis, where she and her people had gently modified the ecology around them, to promote the foods and other natural resources they required in order to live well and in a nature autonomous fashion – true sustainability of the most enduring kind.
Zen-Farming is approaching this merger of deep ecology and sustainable farming through understanding and providing the conditions that nature requires to thrive, and through creating seasonal production habitats for our domestic animals that supply them and us with food, achieve all vegetation maintenance and prepare ground for no-tillage broadcast cropping. A key component of resilience and sustainability is that we expand our dietary range to include more crops that we can easily grow locally and chief among these are the range of perennials that require very little ongoing attention other than harvesting and propagating once planted into their ideal niche.
Zen-Farming works by following the most efficient path towards ecological succession towards nature autonomous abundance. All actions are streamlined holistic processes, in tune with nature’s ways and resulting in the achievement of enduring abundance on nature’s terms.
We find ourselves today in very peculiar times and just to add to the mix, there are prominent agronomists and scientists from many countries claiming we are on the cusp of significant global food shortages. In the past few months frosts have killed off crops in areas of southern India and Europe that that have not known these extremes in living memory, other places such as California and here in Australia are in the grip of prolonged droughts resulting crop failures and water shortages. Anyone buying feed for their animals will have noticed the prices steadily rising over the past months.
Zen-Farming is part of the new earth paradigm of local self-reliance, independence and sustainability. We have all the resources needed and only need to take a short step back from habitual actions and make a fundamental commitment to work cooperatively and symbiotically with nature to achieve productive ecology that yields abundantly and is founded upon life processes that have succeeded on Earth for aeons.
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