Backyard Agrarian

Sustainable Living: For Humans & The Planet

Look around you.
This is the Earth.
Look around you.
These are the people
You share the Earth with.

Now what do we do about it?

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The Mission of A Backyard Agrarian
To tend the life of planet earth with love and compassion.

Our Mission

To encourage the Agrarian Revolution
and to turn every American into a Backyard Agrarian.
The Agrarian Revolution is the process whereby we humans
transform the way we use and manage our lands
and the way we eat and shop and care for ourselves
And stop poisoning and killing
ourselves and the planet.
The transformation is towards a
sustainable and rejuvenating way of life for all.
Backyard Agrarian provides
information, creates discussion, develops products
and offers consulting services to this end.

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Inspiration

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.
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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.
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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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Something can not be "appropriate"
Unless it is ecologically so.
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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're gonna work in sustainability,
you are going to have to confront people
about their fundamental beliefs and system of living.
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I am not afraid. I was born to do this. ~ Joan of Arc

Products and Services

Farm & Eco Travel

Best (and growing) list of agritourism farm stays and eco resorts around the world. From rustic to luxurious.

Sustainability Consulting

Sustainability consulting for your home, school or office. We carefully analyze your life or work systems and help create goals and strategies for a healthy and in many cases, money saving, transformation strategy.

History of Food Interviews

We interview senior citizens about the food culture of their youth. Watch these heart warming interviews here.

Sustainability Blogs and Writing

Gardening

Gardening is about creating life. It's about creating ecosystems above and below the soil, and rejuvenating life on your plot of land, no matter how big or small. As we link rejuvenated backyard ecosystems, together, backyard agrarians increase life and diversity across the planet creating the conditions for a sustainable future.

Sustainability Blog

Articles and musings on all aspects of sustainability form birth to death to education, travel, politics, law, and science - all from a backyard agrarian perspective. As we forge a new world view, a backyard agrarian world view, we begin to discuss and share how the world looks from out here, and how we hope the world will look in the future.

Foraging

Sharing the bounty of the earth, with humans, creatures and the earth itself. Foraging is about sharing, enjoying the bounty while also leaving seeds for next year. Foraging is not about taking but about life-promoting stewardship.

30-Days without packaged food

30-days without packaging, plastic bags or wine bottles. Read all about it including tips, tricks and inspiration.

Permaculture

The future of farming and gardening. If you don't know what it is yet, watch these great videos.

Books & Movies

Our list of must read must watch books and movies for an understanding of the sustainable life.