Food is at the heart of a green society, as it relates to health, transport, energy, and education. Food is glorious, but it is also increasingly expensive and precarious. Yet Stephen Hunt’s book “We Must Begin with the Land: Seeking Abundance and Liberation Through Social Ecology” is not another account of global doom. Using social ecology’s decolonial lens, it aims to spark conversations about how we might diversify and democratise how we grow, share and eat. As a member of the Bristol Radical History Group, his talk will discuss the historic roots of “dominatory agriculture” and the flowering of political ecology from the ideas of Murray Bookchin and others in the 1960s and 1970’s counterculture to present-day alternatives.