Revolutionizing our agri•culture will revitalize communities, acreage, and markets across the Midwest.
Employing regenerative agricultural methods increase biodiversity and yield— empowering smallholders and medium enterprises, by reinvigorating the soil food web. We need to find a personal interest in land restoration.
With there being so much farmland out here, it’s a mistake to ignore Agriculture— both to remediate for a century that effaced the prairie and continues polluting our waters, and as a crucial part of the infrastructure package necessary to national security.Illinois farmland is best utilized when agronomy & ecology enable farmers and families to make healthy choices for our community. Let’s make a demonstrated effort to ensure energy autonomy, community resilience, and global security.
Illinois ecoregion map
Farmland for the Future
My name is Roy Jones. I am fighting for a deal that rehabilitates the land, and I am here because of a fierce belief in what we can achieve together.-
I am working for a deal that rehabilitates the land— what we grow & how we grow.
By turning initiatives into a movement; reducing chemical inputs and industrial externalities, & restoring the prairie. To prioritize the living soil, and stop treating it like dirt: these are the conditions of the deal.
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We cannot keep fighting for a system which won’t change the basic structures of domination and exploitation.
We can reorganize to create sustainable communities founded on regenerative principles. This is an opportunity to prioritize support for our communities’ existing non-profits and mutual-aid groups, to ensure we have the resources going forward as we are working to ensure real food security and housing equity, and access to services that assure quality of life.
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Misinformation, fantasy, and conspiracy have run as a plague through parts of our towns.
A recommitment to education backed by deep epistemology will be useful for life, and free us from the torment of reactionary clickbait.
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Many of our neighbors have expressed disappointment in Party leadership. It’s time to show Republicans and Democrats that we won’t be accomplice to their incompetence. It’s time to be responsible, accountable, and engaged.
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Fertilizer prices, grocery prices, gasoline prices. This isn’t coincidence.
The benefits multi-species cover crops provide to our homeland and our families have been unrealized, to the detriment of our entire agri-culture. We need to be allocating resources and mobilizing support for Illinois farmers and gardeners to actualize a transition to an agronomy that is both ecological and sustainable— an agronomy which provides autonomy and real security. We need to find a personal interest in soil health. Reducing chemical inputs and industrial externalities, restoring the prairie, promoting biodiversity and cultivating polyculture: prioritizing the living soil. These are steps that we could have been making for decades to abate current crises.
Expansion of state and regional Cover Crop and Weatherization Programs will prepare our settlements to become increasingly resilient to extreme weather conditions expected to increase in frequency and intensity, reducing billion-dollar weather and climate disasters and their fatalities.
The 14th District has a responsibility to our bioregion/future to enact a committed investment in regenerative agriculture. As stewards of this landscape, it is our duty to realize a spirited soil health movement. Our farmers deserve our support. That’s why I am working for a deal that rehabilitates the land.
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Independent bus-services already exist, but our counties need a fleet of zero-emission vehicles to serve the majority of us who commute out of our hometowns.
It’s time to expand and modernize the network of public transportation across our counties. There are many of our neighbors who don’t have the privilege of owning their own vehicle, or maybe they don’t have a license— and this significantly limits opportunity for employment, enjoyment, and the accessibility of our great communities.
We have taken for granted the century of the car. Now, we face an energy crisis fueled by our persistent and intense production and consumption of gasoline despite substantial consequences and harm, because of an inability to conceive of better world-systems.
Decades of uninspired business and architecture have compromised municipal vitality by building and maintaining an industrialized, narrow-use grid system.
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We have taken for granted a precarious security. Now, we face the 21st Century unprepared.
The energy transition to zero-emission was always necessary, but never has it been inevitable. Decades of criminal negligence by influencers and corporations have compromised national security by maintaining an inefficient, superannuated grid system.
It is not enough to increase supply, to enable increasing demand-led growth— we must reconsider our consumption, reconsider demand and desire, while prioritizing conservation.
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Why pretend that our high school educations were sacrosanct?
The problem is not political, it is epistemological. Who among us has continued any real scholarship since then? We act like we believe there was an era of strict agreement on necessary teachings of History, Science, Politics. American High School has always been compromised; oil lobbyists and special interests have interfered in high school science education for decades. No serious history was ever taught “across the board” to highschool and under.
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It feels like our way of life is under attack— but really, all people are saying is there are other ways to live.
Violence, hatred, miscommunication; these are being reinforced in spite of the real desire Americans have to ameliorate the conditions that have led to alienation and rebellion. Anti-responsibility is not “freedom”, anti-intellectualism is not “fun”, interdependence is not “weakness”, and vulnerability is not “gay”. Liberty is not guaranteed through cruelty, our cultures are not secured by acts of exclusion.
