Crop Mobber Roshen Sethna created a photo documentary titled Victory of the Commons for a class at Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies. The documentary is about our relationship to land and community and features photos from the Stone House Crop Mob.  Click here to read Roshen’s artist statement.  The documentary can be found at http://www.susiepostrust.com/Duke08/Roshen/index.html

I wonder how much the Crop Mob is about agriculture and how much is simply about enjoying the company of like minded people? We came from all over to dig beds and spread mulch for someone most of us had never met, yet we did it with skill, enthusiasm and the efficiency of seasoned [...]

Growing a local food system is really about building community. It is a process of personalizing our relationship to food and those who grow our food. In order for our communities to be healthy and successful we need to deepen our relationships not just between producers and consumers, but also within the community of producers. [...]

The number of landless and itinerant young farmers, working alone or with a few other people, is a pretty large demographic in my world. What is sometimes missing is not only land ownership but the sense of community that can come from an agrarian culture. None of these farmers wants to farm alone, [...]