Sensitive ways of knowing and practices emerging from peasant sowing or an exercise toward a poetic terragogia

Abstract

This text presents reflections on whether the cultivation of land by peasants can constitute an aesthetic and poetic experience, examining the sensory, symbolic, and relational dimensions present in practices of sowing, cultivation, and care for the territory. From these questions, the concept of terragogy is developed as a perspective that understands the relationship with the land as a formative, ethical, and aesthetic process. Terragogy, a term mentioned by Ospina Álvarez (2025), proposes the recognition of peasant practices as experiences of knowledge production, the construction of community bonds, and the poetic elaboration of life, articulating sensory experience, reciprocity, and the sustenance of the commons.