A thriving rural culture requires a thriving agriculture. Addressing the economics, science and engineering of agriculture leaves the job only half-done. We also need to consider its history, art, music, stories, and poetry.  We will examine the place where human imagination, agricultural sustainability, community well-being, and creative excitement converge. The Re-enchantment of Agriculture project explores agriculture through the arts and humanities, challenging us to reevaluate, illuminate, and celebrate the vital process of growing and sharing food.

Through this project, the not-for-profit Wormfarm Institute is working to renew and reinforce the connections between culture and agriculture.  We are looking back, to times and places where agriculture was more intimately interwoven in our lives, when planting and harvest rituals and celebrations were an essential part of community life.  And we are looking forward, recognizing the vital link that food provides—between producers and consumers, between rural and urban communities, and between the land and our imaginations.

Through a series of public events and a traveling exhibit we will gather words and images on the theme. The exhibit will grow and change and the project will culminate in a harvest forum in October 2007, where we shall seek to reclaim the ancient alliance between the arts and farming.