New Peasantries in Italy: Eco-commons, Agroecology and Food Communities

How to become companion of the Earth by taking part in more than human communities of food? This is the open question that accompanies the making of alternative forms of living in the Genuino Clandestino network. In this paper, I explore three key dimensions of becoming a peasant: farming ecological practices, food communities that links countryside and urban spaces, civic and collective use of land. By exploring the peasant return and its culture of eco-sharing, the development of self-organised peasant markets in Bologna and the community of Mondeggi Bene Comune, Fattoria Senza Padroni we will scout the multiple practices of mending and ecological reparation that animate the everyday politics of Genuino Clandestino.