Agrarian Renaissance
For more information see www.agrarianrenaissance.co.uk
Agrarian Renaissance (AR) is a one member one vote Industrial Provident Society, owned by its members for its members.
Membership is open to all, and the organisation is governed by a directly elected management committee. AR will develop as a provisional organisation leading up to its official launch in May 2010. In that time, we will be recruiting Pioneer Members to help build and shape the movement.
Basic membership is a minimum of ten pounds, which includes a single withdrawable share and a nine pound administration fee. Maximum investment is £20,000.
Pioneer memberships will help generate early revenue and build up capital to be spent on the infrastructure of the movement. Pioneers will be invited to contribute to the provisional phase and to help build towards AR’s May launch by:
• taking part, spreading the word and building support
• investing further in the Renaissance by taking up additional shares
• connecting with each other and starting new enterprises
• contributing ideas, models and experiences
• helping to build a network of Pioneer Farms
• participating fully in the shaping of the organisation and attending the first AGM in advance of the May launch
“We should easily be capable of producing Good Food for Everyone and Forever, but it is We The People who must lead that change.” -
Colin Tudge, campaignforrealfarming.blogspot.com
“Agrarian Renaissance is a bold initiative to address real life concerns through practical action. It is building a movement for change that I recommend joining” - Tony Juniper, www.tonyjuniper.com
“I’ve been working to create alternative food systems for 30 years, and I’ve never felt as great a potential for change as I do now.” -
Julian Rose, www.changingcourseforlife.info
Intention
The intention behind Agrarian Renaissance is not just to align the pioneering actors
in the science and lore of organics, permaculture, biodynamics, compassionate husbandry, biological pest control, care farming, youth socialisation, etc.
It is to combine all these into commercially proven, replicable models that will (like beneficial viruses) change the genetic structure of each farm into the site at which the Reconnection of People, Land and Food takes root.
That is why the farm as a centre for therapy, enterprise, education and leisure, the localisation and networking of food distribution, and the cross-marketing of all these, are central to Agrarian Renaissance.
For further information please contact sam.henderson@agrarianrenaissance.co.uk
