[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#FFFFCC” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_fullwidth_slider use_text_overlay=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” body_font=”Montserrat||||||||” body_font_size=”16px” background_color=”#FFFFCC” background_image=”http:\/\/lydiabstokesfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Mural-in-the-Garden_small.jpg” auto=”on” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_slide use_text_overlay=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” body_font_size=”20px” global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_transition=”on”]<\/p>\n
\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 _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” max_width=”1400px” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_blurb title=”Metamorphosis” content_max_width=”100%” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”Montserrat|800|||||||” header_font_size=”30px” body_font=”Montserrat||||||||” body_font_size=”16px” custom_margin=”||15px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n The metaphor of our age is the metamorphosis of the butterfly. Johanna Macy calls this time of shifting from the industrial age to an ecological age, \u00a0\u201cThe Great Turning\u201d.<\/p>\n The caterpillar is born to voraciously consume its habitat. It grows 100 times larger from when it hatched, so rapidly that it outgrows it\u2019s skin several times. When mature, it suddenly stops eating and growing, and forms a chrysalis.<\/p>\n Inside the protective chrysalis, a dramatic transformation is taking place as the caterpillar digests itself, releasing enzymes to dissolve all of its tissues.<\/p>\n Imaginal Cells, that were dormant in the caterpillar body, begin to activate, merge, and form the butterfly. At first, they are attacked by the dissolving caterpillar enzymes, but once the caterpillar has disintegrated all of its other tissues, the Imaginal Cells use that protein-rich soup to feed the rapid cell division needed to form the body of an adult butterfly. What began with only 50 cells becomes more than 50,000 when metamorphosis is complete.<\/p>\n Elizabet Satoris reminds us that:\u00a0 \u201cThe caterpillar is a necessary stage but becomes unsustainable once its job is done. There is no point in being angry at it, and there is no need to worry about defeating it. The task is to focus on building the butterfly\u2026\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_code _builder_version=”4.23″ _module_preset=”default” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”||12px|||” custom_padding=”||6px|||” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]