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Better understanding their lives opens up a new way of thinking about the lifeworld of contemporary agricultural subjects in the new era of global flows. Through 12 months of multi-sited fieldwork in Lanling and Shanghai, I have investigated how a group of Lanlingnese farmers rely on differentiated kinds of mobilities to both passively experience and actively imagine and construct the hidden infrastructure of provisioning through which the “security” and “freshness” of Shanghai’s vegetable market is generated. These peasant farmers, I argue, are engaged in a novel form of capital-intensive agriculture that is increasingly entangled in far removed urban foodways. Their participation in this supply chain allows them to create worlds for themselves in ways both empowering and challenging. 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