ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the possibility of community-based agriculture as a practice of peace and active non-violence. It explores the term 'community-based agriculture' to include a variety of ways of growing food in and for local communities: in urban community gardens, on urban farms, and on small, biodiverse rural farms that supply food to their local community, through farmers markets, direct sales, or pre-paid community-supported agriculture (CSA) shares. What distinguishes these forms of growing food from conventional, industrial, or monocultural forms of agriculture is, first, a commitment to sustainable and organic – or chemical-free/natural – growing practices; and, second, a commitment to their local communities, whether it is their immediate neighbourhood or the larger rural-urban regions in which farmers grow and sell their produce.
