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First Quarter: The homestead vs. the commune

A twee photograph shot at the golden hour. It shows bread, a tea cup and pot, an open book, and some purple flowers on a white cloth, among other items.
Here is one of the most distressingly "cottagecore" images I could possibly find, if only to illustrate what we here already know is at best a surface-level aesthetic reading of going back to the land, and at worst a mechanism for spreading fascist homesteading ideology. But knowing what kind of land relationship not to practice does not necessarily answer what someone's ideal method of going back to the land should actually look like.

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Fey Hart

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