Backyard Agrarian's Mission
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About Backyard Agrarian
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Some of Our Projects:
Foraging: Wild Edibles
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Yoga: Private and Group Lessons
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Reduce Packaging
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Quotes & Inspiration
Say that your main crop is the forest. ~ Wendell Berry
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If you don't stand up for what you believe, no one will believe you. ~ Rachel Zoe
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We believe the economy must serve the environment - not the other way around. ~ Bludog Organics
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Foraging teaches you to understand the life-giving potential of wild nature. Foraging will help you learn how to stop fighting nature and to allow edible, ecosystem generating plants back into your community. In this age of human-induced mass extinction, it will teach you, how to save the world. ~ Liz Morgan
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. ~ Joseph Campbell
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What once were novel concepts, are now mainstream. What once felt like stepping to the fringes of society, now feels like the beating heart of it. Organic farming and supporting organics continues to gain momentum. School and community gardens are suddenly deeply woven into the fabric of American normalcy. Cities proudly are bike friendlier and friendlier. People everywhere, conservative and liberal, across the country, know that the system can’t go on like this. The trust in the global corporate system is gone and people are beginning to prepare. People are relearning survival skills, and they are realizing that their survival is totally dependant on a thriving system of wild nature around them. ~ Liz Morgan
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Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, which takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. ~ Arnold J. Toynbee
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I am most concerned, in the world today, about biodiversity collapse. Climate Change gets the press, but it is important, largely because of its contribution to biodiversity collapse - along with poisonous agriculture, sprawl, over-consumption of water, destruction of the oceans and deforestation. Our entire society and economy is organized around poisoning and eliminating biodiversity. Climate Change aggravates that by shifting bioregion locations.
Sustainability, given all of this, is first and foremost, about rejuvenating biodiversity, about creating the conditions to let life flourish.
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It's time to change our landscapes, to rejuvenate life and diversity
on our own little plots of land, and in our own homes,
so that as a global people, we can begin to understand
our job of tending this earth. ~ Liz Morgan
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A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. ~ Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
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the entire money machine
should be focused on sustainability
"business success" is not an excuse
for destruction
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A proper community in this day and age of peak oil, peak soil, the obesity malnutrition corporate food system epidemic, ecosystem collapse, global climate change, and almost total corporate control of our government - a proper community under these conditions, will at least recognize a responsibility to create a community that at the very least attempts to tackle these issues in some real and meaningful way. ~ Liz Morgan
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boil a few bones in water: a pinch of salt
anything else is luxury
pure luxury
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Real Solutions for sustainability.
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If you don't stand up for what you believe, no one will believe you. ~ Rachel Zoe
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We believe the economy must serve the environment - not the other way around. ~ Bludog Organics
- - -
Foraging teaches you to understand the life-giving potential of wild nature. Foraging will help you learn how to stop fighting nature and to allow edible, ecosystem generating plants back into your community. In this age of human-induced mass extinction, it will teach you, how to save the world. ~ Liz Morgan
- - -
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. ~ Joseph Campbell
- - -
What once were novel concepts, are now mainstream. What once felt like stepping to the fringes of society, now feels like the beating heart of it. Organic farming and supporting organics continues to gain momentum. School and community gardens are suddenly deeply woven into the fabric of American normalcy. Cities proudly are bike friendlier and friendlier. People everywhere, conservative and liberal, across the country, know that the system can’t go on like this. The trust in the global corporate system is gone and people are beginning to prepare. People are relearning survival skills, and they are realizing that their survival is totally dependant on a thriving system of wild nature around them. ~ Liz Morgan
- - -
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, which takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. ~ Arnold J. Toynbee
- - -
I am most concerned, in the world today, about biodiversity collapse. Climate Change gets the press, but it is important, largely because of its contribution to biodiversity collapse - along with poisonous agriculture, sprawl, over-consumption of water, destruction of the oceans and deforestation. Our entire society and economy is organized around poisoning and eliminating biodiversity. Climate Change aggravates that by shifting bioregion locations.
Sustainability, given all of this, is first and foremost, about rejuvenating biodiversity, about creating the conditions to let life flourish.
- - -
It's time to change our landscapes, to rejuvenate life and diversity
on our own little plots of land, and in our own homes,
so that as a global people, we can begin to understand
our job of tending this earth. ~ Liz Morgan
- - -
A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. ~ Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
- - -
the entire money machine
should be focused on sustainability
"business success" is not an excuse
for destruction
- - -
A proper community in this day and age of peak oil, peak soil, the obesity malnutrition corporate food system epidemic, ecosystem collapse, global climate change, and almost total corporate control of our government - a proper community under these conditions, will at least recognize a responsibility to create a community that at the very least attempts to tackle these issues in some real and meaningful way. ~ Liz Morgan
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boil a few bones in water: a pinch of salt
anything else is luxury
pure luxury
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Real Solutions for sustainability.
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breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, that lovely, mysterious and awesome space. - ed abbey
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Shun pavement
Walk on dirt
As much as possible
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Heal the Earth: Heal Thyself
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The real purpose of Poetry, Is Revolution.
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The quest for sustainability is the modern variant of the Industrial Revolution,
and it offers entire generations the opportunity to do meaningful work
and redesign societies. ~ Ode Magazine
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Learn to see
The common good
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We've got to get ourselves back to
the garden. ~ Crosby, Stlls, Nash & Young
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Rejuvenate
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My perennial garden knows just the right pace
at which to emerge in order to keep me
completely tantalized.
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This project
was a recognition that we need to experiment with
and practice and discuss
the methods for living well in today's world.
If we want to change things, we need to change things.
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If you are going to work in sustainability
you are going to have to confront people
about their fundamental beliefs and system of living. ~ Liz Morgan
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I am not afraid. I was born to do this. ~ Joan of Arc
Walk on dirt
As much as possible
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Heal the Earth: Heal Thyself
- - -
The real purpose of Poetry, Is Revolution.
- - -
The quest for sustainability is the modern variant of the Industrial Revolution,
and it offers entire generations the opportunity to do meaningful work
and redesign societies. ~ Ode Magazine
- - -
Learn to see
The common good
- - -
We've got to get ourselves back to
the garden. ~ Crosby, Stlls, Nash & Young
- - -
Rejuvenate
- - -
My perennial garden knows just the right pace
at which to emerge in order to keep me
completely tantalized.
- - -
This project
was a recognition that we need to experiment with
and practice and discuss
the methods for living well in today's world.
If we want to change things, we need to change things.
- - -
If you are going to work in sustainability
you are going to have to confront people
about their fundamental beliefs and system of living. ~ Liz Morgan
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I am not afraid. I was born to do this. ~ Joan of Arc
Occupy
your backyard
The Earth Is Your Backyard.
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