Today I learned that what I yearn for, what I am learning the skills to do, while it may go under many names (voluntary simplicity, back-to-the-land, homesteading, etc.) is really better thought of as voluntary peasantry.
Peasantry, from the 15th century French païsant meaning one from the pays (countryside), is a pre-industrial agricultural way of life [...]
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A Neo-Pastoral Primer
Not just a vain attempt to coin a phrase, I will attempt to lay out the basics of neo-pastoralism as I see it, and explain how it is inextricably linked with the post-industrial mindset.
These are the ramblings of 