How would you define?
agrarianism
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Research Question For My Readers © Nov 2018
November 1, 2018
Research Question For My Readers
For chapter two. I would like to know how you would define a particular word. There are no right or wrong answers, and your answer doesn't have to be lengthy or profound. Just off the top of your head, tell me what you think of when you hear or read this word.
How would you define?
Thank you for taking time to help!
How would you define?
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A lifestyle concentrating on agriculture as a the central driver of society.
Without running to look it up, my gut interpretation is.......a social system based upon agriculture and its positive ethics. Not the mega type farming found so commonly in the US today, but rather the smaller individually owned and operated farms. The independent farmer would be the recipient of social respect and importance. The social system would center around, or have as a foundation, the farmer. .
The words/phrases that come to my mind are:
Lifestyle. Community. People. Gardening. Livestock. Bartering. Sharing. Off grid. Back to basics. Simpler life.
Hope that helps!!
Love of agriculture. Love of farming.
Then I looked it up. A bit more convoluted in definition.
What Su Ba said. A return to the laws of nature and common sense.
Living with the land in a mutually beneficial relationship in order to to sustain to some degree. (The level of sustainability could of course vary greatly.)
Great question- looking forward to reading other perspectives.
To live a land-based life.
Hands on Agricultural living.
I know the word, but I don't know the dictionary word, so instead of Googling it I will just tell you what I think! :) I guess it's to do with agriculture by definition. My definition is living off the land, using every bit of the land for survival and not relying on money to get by. :)
Being an agrarian?
Some good applicable answers. I will toss in barter system. If you depend on another to produce something you can’t your treatment of and value for that person becomes more symbiotic.
If I spout jibberish just disregard and press on. 😊
A society based on agriculture and the side effects of people working on/with the land.
Folks, I am loving all these answers. Thank you, yes, they do help! I a couple of weeks I'll do a post on agrarianism and how I see it. But please keep your thoughts coming.
Belief that farming isn't just an activity, but a way of life focused on the land. Also conveys a sense that it is a superior way of life to industrialism.
A society based on the land, revolving around farming and supporting the farming way of life.
I agree with tpals.
Leigh, just a note here.O found a copy of your 5 acres book in my roommate's bookshelf.
Unknown and tpals, thanks!
Oh Jo, that made me smile! My first thoughts on agrarianism are in that book. :)
If I can still add my 2 cents.?
I see it as a way of life...rural farms. ma and pop operations. it is a way of life in agriculture and a social status. " I am a farmer" having a pride of ownership, stewards of said land
maybe I don't have a good understanding of the word but this is my thoughts nonetheless.
I will stop babbling now...ha ha ha
interesting, really.... look forwarx to your writings
M.E. never too late! And no such thing as babbling! Impressions are exactly what I'm looking for. A good writer knows her audience and takes care to define her terms. You all are helping me get a good feel for the understanding of my audience.
A belief that living on a farm is a way of life and in many aspects superior to living in an urban environment.
It's the way I grew up, you care for the land and the land cares for you. My family were farmers and we always had fresh food and vegetables. Canning and preserving food was our way of life. I am 66 years old and suddenly people think respecting and caring for nature and the land is a new thing. Everything we ate was organic, I remember my grandmother telling me that when people left the farms they were leaving God and I believe that is the truth. When you work with the land, when you work with your hands and heart you are with God.It is the natural way of things.
i think of health of body and soul, a kind of wholesomeness.
i see an apple cheeked man, at sunset, resting on his digging fork and looking up at the sky. silly, isn't it?
it is the ideal.
A fancy word for farming? ;)
A philosophy which embraces agriculture as the foundational block of society and culture.
I think of it as a farming lifestyle. But "farming" as in small family mixed use farms rather than mega industrial farming.
A rural society with farming forming the base industry from which the others stem from.
Agrarianism:
It’s not a word I come across very often. I first looked it up when following “Granny Miller” and her blog when she had it up and running. Because of this, I associate Agrarian with all aspects of “raising farm animals, small farming and homesteading”. Agrarianism just doesn’t jump off my tongue well.
living for the land and off the land, close to the earth, farming on a small scale that benefits the members of a collective be that a family , a group of like minded individuals or just one person. understanding the rhythms of the land so differently from someone that never has any real contact with it, with their eyes or hands or ears or nose or heart. Happy November from Iowa
Totally off the top of my head ... a lifestyle lived close to the ground, focused on growing things from the ground. A soil farming lifestyle, I guess.
The integration of life and livelihood, to food and fibre production on the land. Interested in reading your thoughts on it, Leigh.
I was reading a book called The Invention of Nature about Alexander von Humboldt, and there's a section in there about how he met Thomas Jefferson that talked about how Jefferson was a big proponent of agrarianism as part of the new republic. As long as a person had his own piece of land, Jefferson believed that the person was independent. Jefferson himself was a pretty awesome farmer apparently--he even argued that only farmers should be elected as congressmen because he thought they were "the true representatives of the great American interest."
I responded a little late--maybe you can do a little more research and still work it in there for your book! I just finished 5 Acres and a Dream the book and loved it and can't wait for the next installment.
http://www.ushistory.org/us/20b.asp
Erin, not too late at all! Thank you so much for your input and the link. It will definitely be a help. The sequel is coming along at a slow but steady pace, so your comment is much appreciated.
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