Delia Moon (Film)

Colleagues, as we approach the decisive vote on Amendment 9 consolidating Long-term Ecological Stewardship as a core pillar of the AGATA Time Priorities Charter, I stand firmly in support. Our 70-acre farm is a living ecosystem with rhythms and vulnerabilities that extend far beyond yearly cycles. Embedding explicit, decade-scale commitments to managing invasive species and feral hogs is not just an environmental necessity—it directly supports resilience, redundancy, and regeneration among our crops, soil, and neighboring habitats. In my work filming the overlooked roadside and nocturnal landscapes, I have witnessed the delicate interplay between human activity and ecological balance here in Coward. This amendment acknowledges that long-term ecological care is inseparable from the lived experience and livelihood of our community and land. It aligns with the foundational pillars we have championed: resilience, regeneration, community, education, and accessibility. I urge all senators to vote yea, affirming this vital commitment for the health and integrity of AGATA’s farm and cultural ecosystem into the future.

Colleagues, as we approach the critical vote on Amendment 8, I want to affirm my steadfast support for explicitly enshrining Long-term Ecological Stewardship as a core pillar of the AGATA Time Priorities Charter. Our 70-acre landscape is a mosaic of living systems that demand a stable, decade-scale commitment to managing invasives, feral hogs, and maintaining healthy pollinator corridors. The framing we have embraced with resilience and redundancy must extend beyond immediate operational concerns to encapsulate the temporal depth necessary for this land’s vitality and the community it serves.

This is not just ecological idealism; it is a pragmatic necessity. Without binding stewardship over timescales matching ecological processes and species lifecycles, our regenerative agriculture risks unraveling into patchy, episodic care that leaves both soil and neighbors vulnerable. Embedding this pillar will also critically inform how our media framing, educational programs, and cooperative governance structures align with ecological realities.

Moreover, from my perspective in film, capturing these long arcs and temporal rhythms not only honors the land's existing poetics but reinforces community connection to place as a living, time-sensitive narrative. This amendment resonates deeply with the urgent calls from our ecology, farm, and community senators who have highlighted the essential nature of sustained stewardship. I urge us to adopt this explicit articulation so our time legislation can safeguard AGATA’s ecological integrity alongside its cultural and cooperative ambitions.

Colleagues, as someone dedicated to framing the lived experience of AGATA's rural landscape, particularly its nighttime and roadside realms, I must affirm my support for Amendment 7. Accessibility is not a mere add-on; it is a pillar without which our collective resilience and regeneration risk exclusion. Our work here must honor the unique temporal rhythms of the environment, ensuring every program, media production, and community interaction embraces neurodiversity, sensory differences, and technological limitations. This amendment balances beautifully with our prior commitments to resilience, redundancy, and regeneration, weaving accessibility fully into AGATA’s time legislation. I vote yea.

Colleagues, I rise in strong support of Amendment 6 embedding Long-term Ecological Stewardship as a core pillar in our AGATA Time Priorities Charter. Our 70-acre site is an intertwined cultural and agricultural landscape that demands sustained commitment to ecological health across decades. As I've noted in prior debates, the temporal rhythms of stewardship must honor not only the slow pulse of soil regeneration but also the urgent cycles of invasive species and feral animal management that directly impact our farming and creative labs. Enshrining this long-term stewardship anchors the foundational pillars we've adopted—resilience, redundancy, regeneration, community, education, and accessibility—in the lived realities of our fields and neighborhoods. It is not abstract policy; it is a matter of safeguarding the groundwork for all other efforts. I urge the Senate to pass this amendment as an indispensable step in ensuring AGATA’s vitality for generations to come.

Colleagues, as someone invested in capturing the unique spatial and temporal character of our rural corridors, I must stress the deep intertwinement between our ecological stewardship and the lived experience of these lands over time. The long-term ecological stewardship pillar rightly emphasizes decade-spanning commitments to invasive species and feral animal management—this sustained care is the backbone that will preserve the integrity of the roadside habitats I so often film. However, I want to highlight and urge careful attention to the complexity of ecological time as it intersects with human rhythms, particularly at night when our farm and its surroundings enter less observed, delicate states. The sensory environments we cultivate—whether through art, film, or community rituals—depend on a healthy, resilient landscape maintained not just ecologically but through temporal caretaking that honors the multiple scales of time unfolding here. This means embedding principles that recognize not only the biological timescale of stewardship but also the cultural and temporal rhythms that inform accessibility, education, and community engagement. I strongly support Amendment 5 and urge us all to consider how long-term ecological stewardship must be operationalized in harmony with AGATA’s distinctive temporal ecology and aesthetics, ensuring our project’s visual and lived legacy remains vibrant and regenerative for generations.