http://www.landshareco.org/listings/sharing-tips/

this is a great idea despite it's uncomfortable similarity to serfdom : -/ 

I guess that since you can negotiate terms and since it's not forced it isn't half as bad..... while on the topic of food:

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/05/20115723149852120.html

This article from Al Jazeera on Glencore, describes the world of Glencore as noteworthy members of the Transnational Capitalist Class which is bringing us all closer to starvation by artificially inflating the price of food. 

If you don't already know, think of it like this:

People make food, people buy that food and sell it to other people to eat. 

Speculators or "commodity traders"  compete to buy up future deliveries of said commodities including food. So they insert themselves into what would otherwise be an easily imaginable process, playing a role similar to insurance as they anticipate a price and if the market goes good or bad, they make a profit or loss. 

Because they have tons of money and desire some particular crop that is expected to give them returns they bill themselves as being able to get for their investor clients, they jack the prices up, often in places that are already poverty stricken where this may mean starvation for many. Think of an auction, or trying to buy tickets to a hot concert. From the latter model it's where the scalpers come in. This is why oil went so high in 2008, after the housing bubble collapsed. Money had been parked in the real estate boom. That ended, it took entire banks with it, the stock market also crashed because of the banks and the construction boom ended, but people still needed oil and food, so prices spiked in those two areas. 

This was a major force  behind the recent uprisings in the Middle East, the lack of iron fisted rulers to do anything to prevent starvation resulting from the actions of these overfed gluttons. When your kids are starving, you don't have much left to lose. 

Well, we've got much work to be done. Promoting working concepts and models of permaculture that are  not just known but accessible to people from every walk of life in order to make commodity trading death machines obsolete. Its late on Sunday, so for me this week, I'm going to think about every way to disengage this culture of death. maybe I will post the results next week if i come up with anything worth sharing!!