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8 AGRARIA JOURNAL 2021 people healthfully while leaving food for our fellow creatures. And forest bathing, outdoor schools, and an explosion of people starting to grow their own food, are providing opportunities for deep immersion and reconnection between people and planet. Kuhn stresses that the scientist’s tools and viewpoint determine the outcome of experiments. If what we pay attention to determines the outcome of our future, we might think of attention as one of the most important resources we have. Do we choose to “pay” our limited attention to our collapsing structures, or to these vigorous new shoots growing through the rubble? Clearly, the future is malleable, and dependent on our dreams as well as our doings. We chose to call Agraria a Center for Regenerative Practice because we understand that the healing that needs to happen on the planet goes far beyond the regeneration of soils. Regenerative practices are those that move forward people, institutions, and projects in an evolutionary-spiraling cycle of growth and development. Our nonprofit’s current work plan assumes that we need to pay attention to multiple levels of healing—the healing of the biosphere and the urban/rural divide; the healing of our agricultural practices and the healing of the systems by which we share food; and the healing of the silos of education through transdisciplinary hands-on initiatives. We share our work with multiple institutional partners, many of whom are written about in this journal. Together with our funders and volunteers, they are helping to weave a field of the future that is diverse and filled with creativity and hope. We invite you to join us as we develop a new narrative of the possible Susan Jennings is the Executive Director of Agraria. Volunteers planted raspberries, strawberries, gooseberries, currants, and jostaberries in Agraria's perennial pantry garden.