The (un)conference that was the Deep Winter Agrarians Gathering 2016 was remarkable, in my eyes, for two reasons. One, that almost 200 farmers, producers of food, educators and communicators from around the country were actually able to down tools and make the journey, and two, that, despite our broken and duopolised food system, there was hope in the room. This was the gathering of a tribe. Heralded last year as the Woodstock of Australian farming, the Deep Winter gathering