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\u201cAmerica is not a pile of goods\u2026 America is a dream of greater justice and opportunity for the average man and, if we can not obtain it, all our other achievements amount to nothing.\u201d \u2015 Eleanor Roosevelt<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_slide][et_pb_slide use_text_overlay=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” body_font_size=”20px” background_enable_color=”off” background_image=”http:\/\/lydiabstokesfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/cows_small.jpg” background_enable_image=”on” global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_transition=”on”]<\/p>\n \u201cEcological agriculture allows us to make peace with the earth, soil and the society.\u201d \u2015 Vandana Shiva<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_slide][et_pb_slide use_text_overlay=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” body_font_size=”20px” background_enable_color=”off” background_image=”http:\/\/lydiabstokesfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/bee.jpg” background_enable_image=”on” global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_transition=”on”]<\/p>\n The river moves from land to water to land, in and out of organisms, \u2026 you cannot separate the land from the water, or the people from the land. \u2015 Lynn Noel<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_slide][et_pb_slide use_text_overlay=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” body_font_size=”20px” background_enable_color=”off” background_image=”http:\/\/lydiabstokesfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Yellowshirt.jpg” background_enable_image=”on” global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_transition=”on”]<\/p>\n The 21st Century will be the era of nurture capital, built around principles of carrying capacity, care of the commons, sense of place and non-violence. \u2015 Slow Money Principle III.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_slide][et_pb_slide use_text_overlay=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” body_font_size=”20px” background_enable_color=”off” background_image=”http:\/\/lydiabstokesfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/ladies.jpg” background_enable_image=”on” global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_transition=”on”]<\/p>\n \u201cWhen people, land, and community are as one, all three members prosper; when they relate not as members but as competing interests, all three are exploited. \u2026\u201d \u2015 The Land Institute<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_slide][et_pb_slide use_text_overlay=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” body_font_size=”20px” background_enable_color=”off” background_image=”http:\/\/lydiabstokesfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/6_small.jpg” background_enable_image=”on” global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_transition=”on”]<\/p>\n \u201cThe soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life.” \u2015 Wendell Berry<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_slide][\/et_pb_fullwidth_slider][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Features” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#FFFFCC” custom_padding=”||15px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”3_5,2_5″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” max_width=”1400px” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_blurb title=”Welcome” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”Montserrat|800|||||||” header_font_size=”30px” body_font=”Montserrat||||||||” body_font_size=”16px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Whether putting on our mud boots and meeting the Ayers Brook goats who are the start of building quality goat dairy herds in Vermont, or, tasting different lettuces developed by High Mowing Seeds, partnering to develop sustainable MBA courses, or seeing the wonder in a child\u2019s eyes as they see seeds they planted become carrots they can eat, we Trustees of the Lydia B. Stokes Foundation are engaged and having fun as we learn about the people, the lands, and the relationships in which we are involved. \u00a0So many opportunities now exist to support the emergence of a new paradigm, a Sufficiency economy, and it is exciting to see our Mission expressed ever more clearly in both our grants and our investments.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_blurb title=”The Next Evolution: Fruition” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”Montserrat|800|||||||” header_font_size=”30px” body_font=”Montserrat||||||||” body_font_size=”16px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Over the last 25 years, the Lydia B. Stokes Foundation has worked toward a vision of societal change and transformation. That vision is one of distinct transition from the Age of Oil to the Age of Soil, in which soil germinates the rebirth of economics, health, food, and culture woven together in community.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>It is now, with the Foundation\u2019s maturation of its philanthropic grantmaking and investment policies, the time to pass along our sense of commitment and our dedication to this larger picture. This is not about a spending down or the dissipation of a certain set amount of money.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>It is about metamorphosis: one form emerging from another.\u00a0 <\/span>Our matured focus is to nest our remaining capacity and legacy into the work of our grantees, metamorphosing our form completely into their groundwork; helping nurture them to build more cohesive, sustainable and dynamic communities.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_blurb title=”Our Mission” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”Montserrat|800|||||||” header_font_size=”30px” body_font=”Montserrat||||||||” body_font_size=”16px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n The Lydia B. Stokes Foundation is committed to the Quaker philosophy of peace and justice. The Foundation supports building resilient, healthy communities by focusing on social and economic justice, regenerative organic agriculture, viable, healthy ecosystems, quality of life issues, development of local food systems, local energy security and peace initiatives.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Montserrat||||||||” text_font_size=”16px” custom_margin=”||85px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n This vision of interconnected Life and Living Values inspires our grant making and investment decisions.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_5″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_blurb title=”Soil Not Oil” image=”http:\/\/lydiabstokesfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/ngo-icon-10.png” content_max_width=”100%” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”58e41a12-d2dc-4bc3-82a3-e7e2a77a32bd” header_font=”Montserrat|800|||||||” header_text_align=”center” header_text_color=”#093532″ header_font_size=”30px” header_line_height=”1.2em” body_font=”Montserrat||||||||” body_text_align=”left” body_text_color=”#ffffff” body_font_size=”16px” background_color=”#65805F” background_layout=”dark” custom_margin=”0px||||false|false” custom_padding=”20px|20px|20px|20px|true|true” animation=”off” header_font_size_tablet=”18px” header_font_size_phone=”16px” header_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” body_font_size_tablet=”15px” body_font_size_phone=”13px” body_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” border_radii=”on|25px|25px|25px|25px” border_width_bottom=”0px” border_color_bottom=”rgba(0,0,0,0.12)” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Humans have severely disrupted Nature\u2019s balanced \u201ccarbon triad\u201d of soil, atmosphere, and oceans by burning fossil fuels and using industrial agricultural practices that overload our planet\u2019s systems.<\/p>\n 20-30% of all the excess greenhouse gasses (carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide) heating up our planet come from fossil fuel dependent industrial agriculture, whether cows, corn, or strawberries.<\/p>\n Regenerative organic agriculture, including holistic planned grazing, sequesters excess carbon, potentially back to pre-industrial levels of 280 ppm, while expanding the soil\u2019s water holding capacity, providing healthy, nutrient rich food and restoring diverse, healthy ecosystems. \u00a0Holistic planned grazing restores grassland health and diversity, while sequestering carbon and methane. We must shift to diversified polycultures, practice holistic planned grazing and banish factory farms; we must change how we farm, ranch, and eat. 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