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Subtle Agroecologies
FIGURE 18.2 FieldTable prepared for participant diners. (Image credit: Eva van Niekerk.)
memory in direct contact with the geography and the matter of food. The co-creation of such
bio-cultural refugia as a ritual, situated in an agricultural feld on biodynamic land, offered the
opportunity to know food and to be-with food while experiencing its source and the place of its
origin, the living soil. As well as being a thanksgiving ritual in celebration of regenerative and
biodynamically grown food of the land, FieldTable sought to be a sympoietic manifestation of
convivial life as an ‘autonomous and creative intercourse among persons, and the intercourse of
the persons with their environment’ (Illich, 2001: 86). What follows is a photo-montage of the
encounters that unfolded during FieldTable for the reader to pause and feel into, muse on and
dwell-with (Figure 18.3–18.16).
EXPERIENCING FIELDTABLE
FIGURE 18.3 Participants walking up the farm track to the entrance of the feld. (Image credit: Eva van
Niekerk.)