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At Ideagarden Institute, we draw inspiration from a diverse, multidisciplinary bank of resources. We encourage the circulation of imagination and inspiration. We hope this resource provides a vibrant source of vitality and energy for the spirit. 

2024 Greg Steltenpohl Pragmatic Visionary Award

Last night we announced two winners of the 2024 Greg Steltenpohl Pragmatic Visionary Award on stage at the Natural Products Expo West!

We were thrilled to present $75,000 to Biddii Baby Foods, an indigenous baby food line and farm rooted in tradition and operating on the Navajo Nation. Husband and wife founders Zachariah and Mary Ben have a deep vision to reconnect Indigenous families with the earth and parenting meanwhile training young Navajo farmers and bringing health to the 20,000 young children in the Four Corners region.

$25,000 was also awarded to Jasberry, Thailand's first B Corp certified food company. Founder Peetachai (Neil) Dejkraisak has been working for over 10 years to commercialize a unique superfood rice that has an incredible nutritional profile and environmental attributes while yielding a 14x increase in income for Thai rice farmers.

We are incredibly excited for the year ahead for these two amazing endeavors. They could not be more deserving of support! Thank you to our our advisors, supporters and committee members who have have volunteered their time and resources to make this award possible. Gary Hirshberg, Sonia Hendriks, Ken Sadowsky, Grace Roberts Burbank, Califia Farms, Plant Futures, Will Rosenzweig, Mike Burbank, New Hope Network.

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Poems

I'm Working on the World
by Wislawa Szymborska

English version by Clare Cavanagh & Stanislaw Baranczak
Original Language Polish

I'm working on the world,
revised, improved edition,
featuring fun for fools,
blues for brooders,
combs for bald pates,
tricks for old dogs.

Here's one chapter: The Speech
of Animals and Plants.
Each species comes, of course,
with its own dictionary.
Even a simple "Hi there,"
when traded with a fish,
make both the fish and you
feel quite extraordinary.

The long-suspected meanings
of rustlings, chirps, and growls!
Soliloquies of forests!
The epic hoot of owls!
Those crafty hedgehogs drafting
aphorisms after dark,
while we blindly believe
they are sleeping in the park!

Time (Chapter Two) retains
its sacred right to meddle
in each earthly affair.
Still, time's unbounded power
that makes a mountain crumble,
moves seas, rotates a star,
won't be enough to tear
lovers apart: they are
too naked, too embraced,
too much like timid sparrows.

Old age is, in my book,
the price that felons pay,
so don't whine that it's steep:
you'll stay young if you're good.
Suffering (Chapter Three)
doesn't insult the body.
Death? It comes in your sleep,
exactly as it should.

When it comes, you'll be dreaming
that you don't need to breathe;
that breathless silence is
the music of the dark
and it's part of the rhythm
to vanish like a spark.
Only a death like that. A rose
could prick you harder, I suppose;
you'd feel more terror at the sound
of petals falling to the ground.

Only a world like that. To die
just that much. And to live just so.
And all the rest is Bach's fugue, played for the time being on a saw.

Music

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Books

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Videos

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