Podcast: Shepherding schools and reviving rural futures

Podcast episode on an ‘agroecological lighthouse’ in northern Spain.

The ‘rural’ is a doing word. This is a key take-home message from this interview with Fernando Garcia Dory, set deep in the mountains of northern Spain.

This episode explores how livestock shepherding relates to commoning and enclosures in an ongoing project, Inland: Campo Adentro. Inland is a shepherd school, or ‘agroecological lighthouse’, with a three-word manifesto: art, agriculture and territory.

We talk to Fernando about how he has created a space to reclaim ecological relationships, whilst also challenging regressive concepts around territory, identity and emotions often associated with the countryside.


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Some of the books, articles and initiatives mentioned in this episode are linked below.

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Inland: Campo Adentro on Instagram

Inland: Campo Adentro (main website)

More information about Inland’s shepherding school (in Spanish)

Seasonal Matters, Rural Relations – booklet by Seasonal Neighbours 

Micribiopolitics of milk (an offer to buy the book and Campo Adentro cheese!)

Book: The Rural (MIT press 2019)

Transhumancia y Naturaleza – founded by Jesús Garzón 

Transhumance map

Confederancy of Villages

‘Sedentist’ bias and the pastoral commons

Future Natures

Pastoralists are often marginalised from common land and resources, even by policies that claim to help them. Policies are based on a bias towards fixed, formalised land ownership.

On the Promise of the Commons

Anoushka Zoob Carter

Treating food as commons, not commodities

Anoushka Zoob Carter