Values Statements
As an organization, we are engaged in an ongoing process of identifying and articulating our deepest-held values. The process helps us both communicate more clearly to others why we do the work that we do and understand more clearly ourselves how we might strive to do it better.
- We value healthy land, and hold that healthy land is at the heart of healthy people and communities.
- We value relationships, and hold that the relationship between people and the land is a foundation for a more tolerant, generous and joyful culture in this country.
- We value the promise of a new land movement, and hold that forging and supporting new practices that connect people and the land will strengthen democracy, citizenship and culture.
- We value equity, and hold that this new practice of land and people conservation must be based upon equity and diversity, the ethics of healthy relationships, and the promise of thinking of and acting for the whole. (Read our organizational statement of values on land, race, class and privilege
.) - We value reciprocity, and hold that success is reciprocoal. We recognize that we need each other to be whole/successful.
- We value locally-grown, healthy food, and hold that food is at the very center of the human experience of land. Human relationships to locally-grown, healthy food are integral to the development of healthy communities. (See our organizational statement on our food philosophy.)