What is it all for anyway? What is Backyard Agrarian? I'm not great at the elevator pitch - I mean, you can't say, to save the world - or can you? 

The real purpose of Backyard Agrarian is to think about how to create a modern culture that will actually work - that will stop destroying everything in sight, and instead create a smarter culture that makes us all happier and healthier and less deadly to the planet and the bugs and everything else. Backyard Agrarian is like a sustainability think tank, but it's more than that. It is also about devising and developing everyday strategies and serious actions for this better world that is oh so possible. 
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I just celebrated my 38th birthday. I enter the next year with some sadness as I look around at the world and the culture that I live in. I remember learning when I was young, about how that evil German was a master of propaganda - how he somehow used it to win over the people. As a child, I remember thinking, "How could the people be so stupid - so duped?" But when I look around at my own culture, or the dominant one that I live in the midst of, I see that we are just as duped and perhaps even more stupid. 
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This hidden Columbine, took my breath away.
Having been out of the professional gardening world for around a year, and having just taken a walk through my wild forest garden, bursting with hidden flowers, many of them edible, I notice that my garden aesthetic is entirely, unshakably changed - for the better. There is a Landscape Imperative, and in this dying world, we gardeners have to meet it. 
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Wild rose.
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