The difference between a Garden and a Yarden is that a garden can have just flowers and plants, but a Yarden has food, fruits, veggies, grains, nuts, if it's edible plant, it's Yarden material!
The term also represents the movement away from GMO and pesticides and back to organic non-GMO
local food sources. It's a symbol, a statement, and edible action! It's a fun
people's movement bringing communities closer together by showing solidarity, celebration, beauty, and the encouragement sharing, reciprocity, and gift circles.
When a community member with a Yarden has more harvest of a particular food than they can eat, they share with others in the neighborhood. In turn, when it's harvest time for another particular food, others in the community share their harvest in return. Yarden Share Circles, if you
will.
Such YSC's bring community members out side and face to
face in a wonderful way. They can also help to establish or strengthen the use of
local online communities, which ironically can help guide
people away from overuse of
Internet technology and instead
outside meeting with neighbors. For example, when a Yardener has a crop harvest coming up and they have more food than they can eat, they can post on their
local Yarden FB group
If your town has Yarden signs, you can even create Yarnen tour paths and post the maps online.
Yardens = <3 !
