To observe and experience how culture is embedded within agriculture, as the lead author I conducted a year-long ethnographic and autoethnographic study within an Australian small-scale market garden. This study sought to understand the social and ecological contributions of a farming community called Loop Growers and their perceptions of societal transitions to fairer and more just sustainable food systems. Six key reflections were synthesized regarding Loop Growers’ environmental and community values and linked to Agrarian worldviews. This farm challenges narratives of the dominant capitalist hegemon, exerted by those benefitting from industrial food systems, by providing purpose, holistic health and healing through small-scale farming and a ‘new peasantry’. Despite this, these farmers’ experience disproportionate risks and face barriers in access to land, education and government support. Lastly, we explore the prospects of a universal basic income for farmers and how this highly embedded experience inspired me to become a farmer myself.