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The Agrarian Librarian

The Agrarian Librarian

By: Edmund Farms
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The Agrarian Librarian is a podcast about reevaluating our priorities, reducing unnecessary dependence, and becoming more connected to the people, places, and systems that sustain our lives.

Through conversations about philosophy, production, community, and politics, the show explores what happens when we redirect our attention away from distant institutions and abstract national debates and toward the people, places, skills, and systems directly around us.

Agrarianism here is not nostalgia or a rejection of technology and modern life. It is about recovering what remains valuable from the past while making thoughtful use of the present. It means understanding where things come from, developing useful skills, strengthening local relationships, producing more of what we need, and becoming less dependent on systems that leave us with little agency.

Episodes range from food, farming, land, and local production to economics, culture, technology, political philosophy, and the institutions that shape our lives. The common thread is a simple question: what can we actually build, improve, and influence from where we stand?

The Agrarian Librarian is about becoming more capable, more connected, and more deliberate about the lives and communities we build.

Copyright 2026 All rights reserved. Social Sciences
Episodes
  • The Antidote to Top-Down Politics Is Local Production | Ep. 1

    The Antidote to Top-Down Politics Is Local Production | Ep. 1
    29 Aug 2026

    If you know what Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump, or Gavin Newsom are doing this week—but don’t know your neighbors’ names—you may be part of the problem.

    In the first episode of The Agrarian Librarian, I explain why I left my career as a pharmaceutical chemist to build Edmund Farms—and why this podcast is ultimately about something larger than one farm.

    We examine the relationship between dependence and political power, why local production matters, and the difference between a producer and a product maker. Using soap, fertilizer, food and energy as practical examples, I argue that stronger communities begin when ordinary people recover the capacity to produce, exchange and solve problems together.

    You don’t need a farm to participate in an agrarian community. You need a capacity you can develop, something you can produce, a service you can provide—or simply a willingness to support the people already producing around you.

    00:00 Are you part of the problem?

    01:18 Why I started The Agrarian Librarian

    03:03 Who this show is for 05:02 Politics within our sphere of influence

    11:29 Dependence, trade and local resilience

    18:44 Building a parallel system

    23:50 Producers versus product makers

    26:01 Rebuilding a regional soap supply chain

    32:00 Economics, autonomy and antifragility

    33:43 Locally produced fertilizer

    36:46 Closing thoughts

    37:53 Bureaucracy Is Violence

    Support the show and find the “Bureaucracy Is Violence” shirt: https://edmundfarms.com/podcast

    The Agrarian Librarian explores philosophy, production, community and politics from the bottom up.

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    38 min
  • The Agrarian Librarian - Official Trailer

    The Agrarian Librarian - Official Trailer
    21 Aug 2026

    The Agrarian Librarian explores philosophy, production, community, and politics through a modern agrarian lens. It’s about reevaluating our priorities, reducing unnecessary dependence, and becoming more connected to the people, places, and systems that shape our lives.
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    2 min
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