半農半Ｘ的創意生活風格──女性新農夫築夢路之敘事探究

Abstract

工業化、物質化及高度競爭的現代社會中，帶給人們很大的身心壓力；在食安問題層出不窮的現今，人們開始關注糧食是如何被產出，健康、安全的糧食的需求大幅提升。近年來，台灣土地上一股草根的力量正在萌芽，一群正值青壯年的人棄業從農，回歸自然生活，追求自給自足的生活。 我以倆佰甲農民食堂為研究起點，透由新農夫的介紹以滾雪球的方式認識了願意分享故事給我的女性新農夫，並透過研究參與者的敘說，了解她們轉業的緣由、適應、問題解決、未來計劃。旅程間，我漸漸的發現，來到農村的女農夫們雖是志願務農者，但是並不把農當做主要的職業，她們是為追尋自然的生活型態而來，進入農村後以「半農半Ｘ」的生活型態在農村中發展志業、開展多元生活形態，建立自我的生活風格。探究其「半農半Ｘ」背後，女性新農夫們追尋的是自我實現的創意生活。 在旅程中發現：一、女農們擇善固執的性格，起反身抵抗現行體制下的社會關係、社會價值觀及商品生產系統，以實踐「半農半Ｘ」展現自我生活風格，追求自主的生活。她們以友善方式耕種，以田間管理員、照顧者的角色來呵護作物的成長；用心維持田間生態的多樣性，追求人與萬物和諧共存的平衡點。二、女農們的生活「農與志」緊密結合，以「半農」滋養「半Ｘ」，能夠更好的提升工作成果與發揮工作價值。三、身心一體的「半農半Ｘ」生活實踐，即是女性新農夫們得以維持生計、達成自然生活且實現有意義的生命追尋的生活方式。尋找人生意義是終身的過程，築夢之路不斷的前進，沒有終點。四、小農所聚集的社群或團體對友善環境生態有共同的理念，大家共存善念、相互支持，共同尋找新農村的各種可能，以「共善」的信念運作農村的轉型，小農們盡一己之力，創建更美好的友善農業願景。

This industrialized, materialized and competitive modern society brings people not only physical but mental pressure. Since various food safety scandals had been exposed continuously, people have started paying attention to ways provisions are produced. The need of healthy and safe provisions is greatly increasing. Recently, the grassroots power has been bourgeoning in Taiwan; a group of young adults abandon their jobs and become farmers, returning to a life of nature and self-sufficiency. This study uses Twoakker as the starting point to conduct the research. Like snowballing, through the new farmer’s introducing, I encountered the female new farmers willing to share her story. With narratives by participants, those past experiences are re-created in which the reason of their change of profession, adaptation, problem-solving and future plan are comprehended. In the course of research, I gradually found those female farmers who came to agricultural village are volunteering individuals that engage in agriculture. They do not regard farming as their profession; instead, they came to agricultural village to pursue a natural style of living. After they went to agricultural village, they perform a “Hannou-HanX” way of living to launch their vocation and develop diverse lifestyle, founding their own mode of living. Under the surface of “Hannou-HanX,” those female new farmers are looking for a creative life in which they fulfill themselves. In the field trip, four points were found out. First, female farmers’ personal trait as perseverance help them resist social relation, social value and commodity production system under current frame. By realizing “Hannou-HanX,” they demonstrate their distinct lifestyle, pursuing an autonomous life. By adopting a friendly way to farm, they take roles as the administrator or caretaker of field to treat the crops with extensive care. They attentively maintain the diversity of ecology in the field, aspiring after the balance between human and all creation in order to achieve a harmonious coexistence. Second, lives of those female farmers are compactly combining with the idea as “farming and aspiration.” By the nourishment of “Hannou” with “HanX,” work achievement is enhanced and work value is brought out as well. Third, practicing “Hannou-HanX” which propels the union of body and mind in their living is those female new farmers’ lifestyle to earn a living, achieve a natural way to lead life, and realize the pursuit of living with meaning. Comprehending the meaning of life is a lifelong process; the pursuit of dream keeps going without an end. Fourth, community or group formed by small farmers holds the same belief in friendly ecological environment. Saving good intentions and supporting each other, together they look for every possibility for new agricultural village. They transform the agricultural village with the belief as “common good;” those small farmers dedicate themselves to create a greater vision of an agriculturally friendly future.