Welcome to Liberty Garden!
LibertyGarden.Com exists to inform the public about the philosophical foundations and practical consequences of freedom policies.
This includes promoting an understanding of why private property and individual liberty are corollaries and why freedom and a healthy planet are inseperable.
About Us
Michael Shaw is the owner of a 75 acre parcel of land on California’s Central Coast called, “Liberty Garden”. Located not far down the coast from San Francisco, Liberty Garden overlooks Monterey Bay to the southwest. The land is a wondrous enclave of native California flora and fauna, nestled between the coastal hills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. California’s coastal Highway #1 lines the eastern border of the land. The nearest town is La Selva Beach, just a mile or so down a winding county road.
Michael Shaw
A Tale of Two Counties
Santa Cruz County:
After 26 years, Santa Cruz County and Supervisor Ellen Pirie, continue to block economic use of Liberty Garden
and
Alameda County:
Michael Shaw, owner of Lockaway Storage, delivers Misprision of Treason Notice to Alameda County
"To release the potential productivity and diversity of a landscape, an owner must be free to engage in rigorous disturbance, and free to pursue a reasoned and creative process of trial and error. This process would be suited to the choice of each individual and the uniqueness of each property,"
–Michael Shaw from Ecological Restoration, Spring 2002
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