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 !
