IN SEARCH OF A REMEDY FOR INGRATITUDE

Fall 2024 Lyceum Series

Tuesday, October 29
7:00

Sand River Community Farm dinner

What becomes of a people wedded to a consumer economy that grows by breaking bonds of neighborly trust, affection and care? What becomes of their neighbors, both human and non-human?  What becomes of the landscapes, both near and far, from which they draw their lives? 

Adam Wilson and Sam Bliss

Sam Bliss from Food Not Bombs Burlington and Adam Wilson from Sand River Community Farm in Keeseville will share stories from their many experiments in turning food back into a gift: growing, gleaning and sharing food that is not for sale.  In both urban and rural settings, these friends, colleagues and now-collaborators have found the non-market, neighborly work of re-learning human gratitude endlessly joyful and surprising, deeply humbling, and far more mysterious and grief-informed than they could have imagined. This talk will be a lively, challenging conversation about money and markets, gifts and gratitude, farming and feeding, culture and economy, and the work we might take up together in a time of ecological and social unraveling.