Planning for a post-carbon world
without hunger.
What is an Agrarian?
Sustainability starts with the land - and our connection to it. An agrarian mindset is the understanding about where we stand in this world, of what we stand on, and of how we are connected to it. It is living a life that promotes peace with the land. That does not struggle, but enjoys. That does not destroy, but rejuvenates. It is life in all ways in accordance with the higher commands of nature.
If a flock of birds, or a glacier disappeared, an agrarian would consider whether his actions caused that imbalance. And if it did, that agrarian would cease that action and would reorganize his actions and his society into a way that would not cause that destruction of his world. And so on and so forth as he goes through life there would be constant adjustments. An agrarian spends his life learning the laws of nature - and his connection to it.
An agrarian is aware of what makes him feel good and what makes him feel bad. He notices that when he eats foods that are far from nature, he feels bad. He notices that when he wakes up to an alarm clock or stays sedentary and inside too much, he feels stressed and his body hurts. He finds that when he eats and wakes and works in accordance with nature, amazingly, he feels good. He feels happy. He feels content and in love with his world and his life.
An agrarian is deeply hurt by injustice and the sicknesses caused by an environment polluted for greed. An agrarian hopes that his small actions, some consciousness in his every day life, will help bring some sanity back into the world. Will help clean up this mess, and will at least allow him to live well during his stay on this big blue planet.
If a flock of birds, or a glacier disappeared, an agrarian would consider whether his actions caused that imbalance. And if it did, that agrarian would cease that action and would reorganize his actions and his society into a way that would not cause that destruction of his world. And so on and so forth as he goes through life there would be constant adjustments. An agrarian spends his life learning the laws of nature - and his connection to it.
An agrarian is aware of what makes him feel good and what makes him feel bad. He notices that when he eats foods that are far from nature, he feels bad. He notices that when he wakes up to an alarm clock or stays sedentary and inside too much, he feels stressed and his body hurts. He finds that when he eats and wakes and works in accordance with nature, amazingly, he feels good. He feels happy. He feels content and in love with his world and his life.
An agrarian is deeply hurt by injustice and the sicknesses caused by an environment polluted for greed. An agrarian hopes that his small actions, some consciousness in his every day life, will help bring some sanity back into the world. Will help clean up this mess, and will at least allow him to live well during his stay on this big blue planet.
Liz Brown Morgan, M.A., Esq.
Founder, Backyard Agrarian
LizBrownMorgan@gmail.com
Liz's lifelong commitment to land-based sustainability, has finally led to the creation of Backyard Agrarian. Backyard Agrarian started when Ms. Morgan took a break from the practice of environmental, civil rights, tax resolution, and green business law to pursue something that had been calling her for decades: organic gardening. She ran Backyard Agrarian as an eco-friendly home and office garden installation and maintenance company based in Boulder, Colorado for several years.
Backyard Agrarian is now focused on turning every backyard in America into a beautiful, inspiring, carbon sequestering, food providing, habitat creating, pollinator sustaining, water purifying, permaculture food forest. Liz is also focused on turning every American into a Backyard Agrarian, with a renewed, healthier, more sustainable outlook on what it means to be human in this time in history.
Liz writes a food and sustainability blog, works for massive cultural transformation, health and happiness, and engages in community activisism and organizing, product development, public outreach and education, and builds websites for small eco friendly businesses. She can be hired by communities for campaign creation around issues of environmental and social justice, legislation writing, blogging, community organizing, and media out public outreach. Her work has been published in Living Green Magazine, Women of Green, Leisure Travel Magazine and others.
Liz lives in the hills outside of Boulder, Colorado with her hubby Rich and her dogs Basil and Buster. She tries to heed the sage advice of Edward Abby and save plenty of time for foraging, rafting, skiing, and enjoying life.
Backyard Agrarian is now focused on turning every backyard in America into a beautiful, inspiring, carbon sequestering, food providing, habitat creating, pollinator sustaining, water purifying, permaculture food forest. Liz is also focused on turning every American into a Backyard Agrarian, with a renewed, healthier, more sustainable outlook on what it means to be human in this time in history.
Liz writes a food and sustainability blog, works for massive cultural transformation, health and happiness, and engages in community activisism and organizing, product development, public outreach and education, and builds websites for small eco friendly businesses. She can be hired by communities for campaign creation around issues of environmental and social justice, legislation writing, blogging, community organizing, and media out public outreach. Her work has been published in Living Green Magazine, Women of Green, Leisure Travel Magazine and others.
Liz lives in the hills outside of Boulder, Colorado with her hubby Rich and her dogs Basil and Buster. She tries to heed the sage advice of Edward Abby and save plenty of time for foraging, rafting, skiing, and enjoying life.
“One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am--a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards.” ~ Edward Abby
