This episode starts with an update on where currently stands the effort to build a coast-to-coast network of organic farms, growing sites, and permaculture plots — held together and made coherent by flows traveling and local musicians through an emergent folk-spiritual movement we’re calling the Church of Food and Music or CoFaM.

What follows is two disclaimers about Permaculture: 1. Permaculture is an appropriative colonial framework. And that’s okay, even essential. 2. Heavy Meadow is under-qualified to give a lecture on permaculture. And that’s okay, even essential.

Host and music is, as ever, Heavy Meadow.

Blessings to all beings of the vibe

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The Church of Food and Music is an effort to turn traveling and local musicians into bumble bees: networker-builders in service of the local food movement by creating a folk-spiritual movement rooted in the simple ritual of live musical performance at organic farms and/or permaculture sites around this land. Why should bars be the default for live music? You can have a beer at a farm! More room to dance, too! 

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The CoFaM isn't any sort of legal structure or formalized organization yet -- it's a new story being told by bard and community organizer Heavy Meadow. It's a set of pilot sites being cultivated during the tour of Heavy's upcoming show *The Magician*, which follows his debut album and show *The Fool*, which is available on Spotify. And it's this podcast, which chronicles this unfolding as it becomes what the world needs it to be. Or doesn't, whichever's cool, I'm easy. 

We'll be having conversations with land-stewards, growers, farmers, permaculturists this land over, as new sites join the CoFaM. We'll be talking to musicians local and traveling. And we'll be exploring Heavy Meadow's own eclectic set of interests as different lenses through which to understand the call of The Church of Food and Music.

This first episode is laying out the backstory and the premise as it stands.