You're not going to be. Hello beloved survivors. My name is Autumn Brown and this is how to survive the end of the world, a podcast about learning from

apocalypse with grace, rigor, and curiosity.

How to find some water when it's basically all gone? Let's see.

Well, I don't know that it would be all gone. It's more about making sure that you have access to the water that's there, you know.

The other voice you are hearing is my eldest child. of the water that's there, you know.

The other voice you are hearing is my eldest child Finn.

We've been recording our conversations

about apocalypse survival.

And in this one, we discussed how one of the most important aspects of survival

planning is cultivating food.

Yeah, but yeah I mean you would eventually have to start growing food.

That's really important.

And you'd have to be able to figure out a way

to access water consistently, like,

which looks different in a city versus in the country like you remember

when we lived out in the country we had our own well.

Indeed almost every scenario of systemic collapse involves a major question about how we will sustainably feed ourselves and our communities in a post-industrial context.

For a visionary approach to this question rooted in recovering our ancestral

traditions, I turned to one of the co-founders of Soul Fire Farm. Leah Peneman is a black Creole educator, a farmer, an author, and a food justice activist based on

Soul Fire Farm in Grafton, New York. She is the author of Farming While Black, and she

co-founded Soul Fire in 2010 with the mission to end racism in the food

system and reclaim our ancestral connection to land.

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