Growing, Cooking, Eating, Shitting Off-grid Organic Food
2014
Vannini, Phillip | Taggart, Jonathan
Though research on back-to-the-landers, smallholders, organic farmers, community gardeners and eco-villagers is copious, extremely little knowledge exists on off-grid living. “Off-grid” refers to a home or community disconnected from regional electricity and natural gas infrastructures. Off-gridder dwellers not only generate power and heat but in general also practice relative self-sufficiency when it comes to food production. Drawing from ethnographic research conducted in Canada, this paper examines the practices of growing, cooking, eating and disposing of off-grid organic food. Off-gridders' practices present a counter-hegemonic idea of convenience which emphasizes the importance of food that is local, self-produced, sustainably-cooked and sustainably disposed of. We argue that off-gridders engage in acts of “deconcession,” that is, practices that respatialize and reconfigure food-based assemblages of materials, institutions, practices, representations and experiences by way of reduced reliance on the dominant system of distant food supply.
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