User:Eebird

About me
My name is Elena. I am a graduate student studying agroecology and social movements of the commons. I have three years of organic vegetable production experience and a background in rural organizing and oral history.

Things I like



 * Sharing meals
 * Sharing ideas
 * Herbalism
 * Snow
 * Olive Oil
 * Butter
 * Crows
 * Turkey Vultures
 * The smell of petrichor after rain

Things I do not like

 * Fascism
 * Consolidation of Power
 * Pesticides
 * Being too warm when I sleep
 * Dry hands
 * Industrial Animal Agriculture

Guiding ideas
I use the framework of The Commons and the Solidarity Economy to guide my research in Agroecology. Elinor Ostrom was a pioneer of the modern conception of the Commons and her book "The Governing the Commons" has been influential to community economists and environmental scholars. My studies are informed by anti-colonial and Plantationocene theories. I hope to be a steward of the land by finding ways to farm that are rooted in an anti-settler agrarianism.