A Journey of Self-Discovery
by David Ward (2014 Byron Fellow) As I stood by the pick-up point at Indianapolis airport, my mind was buzzing with nerves and apprehensions. Questions existed that had no answers; why was I there? what was I about to do? why was I doing it? I wanted answers and...
What is Byron Fellowship? A Personal Description and Invitation to Apply
by Anamaria Aristizabal What is Byron Fellowship? It is a journey to envision. Collectively, participants and mentors put our minds together to understand the complex systems that need to be shifted. We increase our capacity to see wholes, and have an integral...
Byron Fellowship: My week in Indiana
Temitope Ogunrekun, 2014 Byron Fellow, comes back to University Collegue London (UCL) with great reflections on what the program meant to him. Read his comments here!
First Food Forest in Austin Public Park Needs Your Support!
Byron Fellows Elizabeth Walsh, Olivia Sanchez and Brianna Kroeger are part of the team that is pushing for the Festival Beach Food Forest, the first permaculture food forest in a public park in Austin. Support Phase I of this audacious project through their Indiegogo...
Re:Generate Fellowship: Apply Now!
Applications to the Re:Generate Fellowship--Food, Creation Care, and Bioregional Leadership are now open until March 30th! The fellowship is a holistic leadership development program for young faith leaders who are exploring vocational issues focused in the areas of...
Back to the Garden: A New Asceticism
Fred Bahnson, Director of the Food, Faith, and Religious Leadership Initiative at Wake Forest University School of Divinity and author of Soil and Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food & Faith, participated at the Byron Program in Aschville, this past August...
New Garden Tower Kickstarter is Funded 250% in 24 hours
Congratulations to Joel Grant (2004 Byron Fellow) and his company, the Garden Tower Project, for successfully launching the next generation of Garden Tower! The project was fully funded just 33 minutes after launching on Kickstarter Tuesday, and continues to grow in...
Byron Fellowship Reflections: Seven Weeks Out
by Brian McCaster (2014 Byron Fellow) Once upon a time, there was a man with a smile. Every day the man smiled at the world, and every day it smiled back with love and blessings abundant. Until one day, the man's smile left his face and touched his heart. And, then it...
Byron Fellowship Reflections: Unlocking Potential
by Imaan Taghavi (2014 Byron Fellow) Going into Byron, I was unclear as to what to expect. Preoccupied with so much else in my life I was having a hard time trying to understand what I had read a past fellow describe as "interconnected flourishing." I did, however,...
Byron Fellowship Reflections: A Sense of Wonder
by Walter Velazquez (2014 Byron Fellow) One month after those unforgettable days we spent at Turkey Run, where I somehow learned to see the world in a different way, life once again kicked me out of my comfort zone. I traveled to Cuba planning to spend three months...