• How do I donate?
• Contact Information

About Us

Building The Backyard: An alternative health center that offers wellness education and services in a sustainable environment.

In the mountains of Mendocino County, an innovative project exploring holistic approach to mental and physical well-being is happening!

The Backyard offers three creative ways of responding to the health care crisis:

1. recognizing alternative healing paths
2. patient-guided education
3. environmental sustainability

A non-profit organization since 2004, The Backyard is now located on one hundred acres in Yorkville, California. Dr. Jean Talleyrand, the Executive Director and an original founder of The Backyard, has had a long interest in alternative health methods beginning as a medical student at Boston University School of Medicine and continuing to a Family Practice Residency at the University of California, San Francisco. While serving communities in the San Francisco- Bay area (including the Mission District, South of Market District, and the Bayview/Hunter’s Point District), as well as participating in education internships in Cuba and native land, Haiti, Dr. Talleyrand became increasingly convinced that a partnership between Western, Eastern, and traditional healing methods was a crucial next step in American medicine.