Thank you for sharing this vision, Leah. I agree entirely--enthusiastically--with everything you have said here, as I do with Daniel Christian Wahl, the Bioneers, and countless others in the worldwide regenerative/permaculture movement (or what I like to call "the Gaia Movement")

But the challenge is in getting from here to there, and for that, we need simple, practical suggestions that anyone can implement with immediate benefits, besides a lot of visionary dreams and abstractions.

Hence my own recent initiative: encouraging my neighbors here where I live to reach out to one another and form local, autonomous Garden Guilds with others who have gardens already, or have an interest in learning to grow some of their own food. As one of the 12 Permaculture principles states, "Use small and slow solutions." Here's one approach:

(1) Find two or three people in your neighborhood who want to form a Garden Guild steering committee, reach out to others, until you get 8-10 interested neighbors, who give you their email address.

(2) Create an E-list of these names, and organize a potluck dinner, where all can meet and bring a dish featuring something they've grown themselves.

(3) Include an educational component--a volunteer presenter with some gardening expertise or a good Permaculture instructional video clip from YouTube--to teach, and engender a discussion of a good holistic gardening technique;

(4) Schedule the next potluck, monthly or more frequently, as you wish.

(5) Disseminate what you are doing, encouraging others to do likewise. Make frequent use of the Garden Guild slogan: "Grow Gardens, Grow Community, Grow Awareness."

(6) Take it from there.

I have deliberately NOT formed a nonprofit corporation or put up a website (though I might do the latter), since all I want to do is disseminate this idea and let others implement it. And I don't care in the slightest if groups of neighbors somewhere far away form their own Garden Guilds without ever having heard of "Tom Ellis"