Having worked on and with an immigrant-led worker-owned cooperative farm that is on decommodified land for the past five years, this paper considers the tensions and possibilities of land decommodification processes. Once the land is decommodified, then what? What other practices and ways of worlding must be intentionally designed, imagined, and cared for? Split into three parts, I first detail the ways we were (are) still ontologically occupied by the modern colonial capitalist order while trying to build other world(s) even on decommodified land. Next, I turn to the year we let the land lay fallow, theorizing the land as a fugitive guide toward ways of worlding outside of the dominant modernist imaginary. I then take us there, away from the dominant occupation, by recontextualizing the farm's work in deep time more-than-human relations. Ultimately, the aim of this paper is to help us consider the intentional practices that might move us toward ways of worlding where land, and therefore all of us, are not only decommodified, but also free – free from colonial categorizations, separations, borders, enclosures, and beyond.
