Membership You know whether you are a Briar or not. The Briarpatch Review is intended to be the membership magazine of the Briarpatch. There are no membership dues. If you wish to make a gift, to tithe, or share and help in any way, that’s wonderful–we need to hear from you! To be on the membership mailing […]

The first issue of Briarpatch Review had many more reasons to fail than to succeed. It was pretty thin on content. And some of the content was soon to be proven utterly dumb. (Freelandia). It was nowhere explained why a journal about alternative economics, directed to people who identify with the notion of “Briarpatch” life […]

Well yes it’s May 9th and the garden’s only just plowed. Well, it’s tough to live together yessir–especially if you’re a bunch of anarchistic hung-up middle-class dropouts with big ideas yessir. Hard to stay up front while maintaining that nothing is necessarily “right” or “wrong”. We got burned out of our house Dec. 7th. Don’t […]

I was indeed surprised and pleased to get the first copy of the Review. The accounts of activities are interesting, but more importantly, they are inspirational. Reading about real people pursuing right livelihood in various enterprises is encouraging to me. It is a bolster to my confidence to witness others “getting on with it.”

I was indeed surprised and pleased to get the first copy of the Review. The accounts of activities are interesting, but more importantly, they are inspirational. Reading about real people pursuing right livelihood in various enterprises is encouraging to me. It is a bolster to my confidence to witness others “getting on with it.”

On a personal level, I would very much like to find out if there is anything that Briarpatch and I can do for each other. As far as skills other than writing, I am a pasta chef of some local renown, making both fettuccine and ravioli on my own machine. I know celestial navigation and […]

I suggest that you think about the idea of articles on briar games. I’m super-interested in the direction Stewart Brand has been taking the fields of recreation, relaxation, excitement, and challenge. I personally am enamored of the game of basketball and plan on submitting articles that would get more briars dribbling.

Well, I’m sure you have heard the story about the man who was offered a pill guaranteed to make him smarter. When he remarked, on biting into it, that it was a sheep’s pill, he was told, “See, you’re getting smarter already.” Ha-Ha. I feel a little like that man. I paid $25 for a […]

As far as living joyfully in the cracks, may I suggest being a volunteer in medical research? I have been getting $25 a month for more than a year so far, testing a male birth control pill. Not only is this promoting some needed social change, it would probably cover much of the money needs […]

  The Briarpatch Review* is one of the workings of the Briarpatch network and we want to encourage an exchange of information with our readers. In a sense, this is a membership magazine–a publication which links up the people who practice Right Livelihood with the philosophy, experience and tools of the New Age trade. Consider […]