ABSTRACT
This chapter examines two very different communal, utopian experiments and their emphasis on the importance and difficulty of achieving food self-sufficiency. The utopian mentality around producing enough helps justify any and all technological practices or policies. Globally, the Green Revolution represents the most egregious embrace of this utopian mentality of enough. The green revolution packaged a particular kind of agriculture dependent upon appropriate land, large amounts of financial capital irrigation systems and other industrial inputs like tractors, seed purchases, herbicides, non-organic fertilizer and an entire apparatus of industrial agriculture that was intended to universalize agricultural production. With only one vision of what appropriate agriculture looks like, this technological utopia of quantity pursues a logic committed to 'an epidemic of sameness'. In many ways the Biosphere II project and the catholic worker farms parallel one another along with other utopian experiments with a communal agriculture, both critique the existing ideology as inadequate to meet the needs of a flourishing humanity.
