The Agrarian Librarian https://msblake414.podbean.com The Agrarian Librarian is a podcast about reevaluating our priorities, reducing unnecessary dependence, and becoming more connected to the people, places, and systems that sustain our lives.

Through conversations about philosophy, production, community, and politics, the show explores what happens when we redirect our attention away from distant institutions and abstract national debates and toward the people, places, skills, and systems directly around us.

Agrarianism here is not nostalgia or a rejection of technology and modern life. It is about recovering what remains valuable from the past while making thoughtful use of the present. It means understanding where things come from, developing useful skills, strengthening local relationships, producing more of what we need, and becoming less dependent on systems that leave us with little agency.

Episodes range from food, farming, land, and local production to economics, culture, technology, political philosophy, and the institutions that shape our lives. The common thread is a simple question: what can we actually build, improve, and influence from where we stand?

The Agrarian Librarian is about becoming more capable, more connected, and more deliberate about the lives and communities we build.

]]> Sat, 29 Aug 2026 09:28:56 -0300 https://podbean.com/?v=5.5 en Copyright 2026 All rights reserved. Society & Culture 1440 episodic Edmund Farms Edmund Farms No false https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/22578393/Untitled_design_9_6ih8h.png The Agrarian Librarian https://msblake414.podbean.com 144 144 The Antidote to Top-Down Politics Is Local Production | Ep. 1 The Antidote to Top-Down Politics Is Local Production | Ep. 1 https://msblake414.podbean.com/e/the-antidote-to-top-down-politics-is-local-production-ep-1/ https://msblake414.podbean.com/e/the-antidote-to-top-down-politics-is-local-production-ep-1/#comments Sat, 29 Aug 2026 09:28:56 -0300 msblake414.podbean.com/079b643e-f3e8-31e9-a407-bfb575691d04 If you know what Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump, or Gavin Newsom are doing this week—but don’t know your neighbors’ names—you may be part of the problem.

In the first episode of The Agrarian Librarian, I explain why I left my career as a pharmaceutical chemist to build Edmund Farms—and why this podcast is ultimately about something larger than one farm.

We examine the relationship between dependence and political power, why local production matters, and the difference between a producer and a product maker. Using soap, fertilizer, food and energy as practical examples, I argue that stronger communities begin when ordinary people recover the capacity to produce, exchange and solve problems together.

You don’t need a farm to participate in an agrarian community. You need a capacity you can develop, something you can produce, a service you can provide—or simply a willingness to support the people already producing around you.

00:00 Are you part of the problem?

01:18 Why I started The Agrarian Librarian

03:03 Who this show is for 05:02 Politics within our sphere of influence

11:29 Dependence, trade and local resilience

18:44 Building a parallel system

23:50 Producers versus product makers

26:01 Rebuilding a regional soap supply chain

32:00 Economics, autonomy and antifragility

33:43 Locally produced fertilizer

36:46 Closing thoughts

37:53 Bureaucracy Is Violence

Support the show and find the “Bureaucracy Is Violence” shirt: https://edmundfarms.com/podcast

The Agrarian Librarian explores philosophy, production, community and politics from the bottom up.

#TheAgrarianLibrarian #Agrarianism #Localism #BureaucracyIsViolence

]]> If you know what Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump, or Gavin Newsom are doing this week—but don’t know your neighbors’ names—you may be part of the problem.

In the first episode of The Agrarian Librarian, I explain why I left my career as a pharmaceutical chemist to build Edmund Farms—and why this podcast is ultimately about something larger than one farm.

We examine the relationship between dependence and political power, why local production matters, and the difference between a producer and a product maker. Using soap, fertilizer, food and energy as practical examples, I argue that stronger communities begin when ordinary people recover the capacity to produce, exchange and solve problems together.

You don’t need a farm to participate in an agrarian community. You need a capacity you can develop, something you can produce, a service you can provide—or simply a willingness to support the people already producing around you.

00:00 Are you part of the problem?

01:18 Why I started The Agrarian Librarian

03:03 Who this show is for 05:02 Politics within our sphere of influence

11:29 Dependence, trade and local resilience

18:44 Building a parallel system

23:50 Producers versus product makers

26:01 Rebuilding a regional soap supply chain

32:00 Economics, autonomy and antifragility

33:43 Locally produced fertilizer

36:46 Closing thoughts

37:53 Bureaucracy Is Violence

Support the show and find the “Bureaucracy Is Violence” shirt: https://edmundfarms.com/podcast

The Agrarian Librarian explores philosophy, production, community and politics from the bottom up.

#TheAgrarianLibrarian #Agrarianism #Localism #BureaucracyIsViolence

]]> Edmund Farms true No 2287 1 full The Agrarian Librarian - Official Trailer The Agrarian Librarian - Official Trailer https://msblake414.podbean.com/e/the-agrarian-librarian-official-trailer/ https://msblake414.podbean.com/e/the-agrarian-librarian-official-trailer/#comments Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:55:57 -0300 msblake414.podbean.com/83b6e368-b710-3dc0-85f0-d7905898c712 The Agrarian Librarian explores philosophy, production, community, and politics through a modern agrarian lens. It’s about reevaluating our priorities, reducing unnecessary dependence, and becoming more connected to the people, places, and systems that shape our lives.

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