Unconditional Freedom at Home and in the World

Unconditional Freedom Project’s other core demonstration projects, Love to Table and The Earth Program, operate in conjunction with Prisons to Monasteries to foster an ecology of restorative practices. 

Love to Table, for example, helps to restore dignity among the poor and unhoused by serving them nutritious, well-prepared, and ethically and elegant settings, mirroring the dining experience of high-end farm-to-table restaurants. 

The Earth Program develops ecologically sustainable agricultural and agricultural and land use practices on the The Land and partner farms in Mendocino County, and supplies food from those farms to Love-to-Table. It also works in prisons to establish prison-based ecological projects to reclaim undeveloped land on prison campuses for resident-managed gardens and apiaries. 

Unconditional Freedom Project’s integrated approach to restoring human dignity among marginalized populations and restoring natural habitats is guided by the eco-restoration efforts of award-winning documentary filmmaker and pioneering ecologist John Liu. Liu serves as a consultant to Unconditional Freedom Project and presented its prison-based eco-restoration program to the United Nations’ Decade on Ecosystems Restoration in January 2022. Liu’s vision for ecological restoration sees the mission to to reclaim earth’s abundant functionality as the key to humanity’s survival. 

“After decades of observation and study about the Earth’s natural ecological systems and the consequences of human impact on the Earth’s biodiversity, hydrological function, fertility, and climate regulation,” Liu argues, “my conclusion is that the size of the solution must be equal to the size of the problem. To ensure that we succeed, we can’t just tackle the easy tasks, we must learn to choose to restore the hardest, the most difficult, the most degraded states.” 

We bury our trash in landfills. 

We bury our ‘trashy’ people in prisons. 

The result, at scale, is that we have a massive and compounding problem of waste that crowds out nature, and we have a massive problem of creating human waste that crowds out opportunities for societal restoration and flourishing. 

Unconditional Freedom Project is fully dedicated to fundamentally curing the ills that face society – through understanding that by “rewilding” nature, and “rehumanizing” human society both man and nature can thrive.