Amir Project Inc Competitors

Greener Partners’ mission is to strengthen community health through urban farming, equitable fresh food access, and discovery-based learning. We believe that all people should be able to access nourishing food in the communities in which they live. We partner with schools, hospitals, and community organizations to develop underutilized land into productive urban gardens that provide fresh food for communities experiencing food insecurity. We address barriers to healthy eating through hands-on gardening, cooking, and nutrition education programs, and through no-cost fruit and vegetable distributions. Our seed-to-plate lessons are based on research that shows when garden education is combined with food education, people eat more fruits and vegetables. Additionally, studies show that fresh food access is more effective when combined with food education. The school, hospital, and community gardens in the Philadelphia region that we support help thousands of youth and families to make deep connections to the land and one another. Greener Partners aims to equip people with skills to establish sustainable sources of healthy food in their communities through urban gardening. This approach connects youth to the land, regenerative practices, advocacy for land use, and the power of growing their own food. Our goal is to connect youth to neighborhood green spaces and empower them as agents of change in their communities.

Slide Ranch connects children to nature. We cultivate healthy bodies and minds and foster future generations of environmental stewards through hands-on programs at our coastal farm and nature preserve in California. By cooking, gardening, caring for animals and exploring wilderness and the coast, we teach visitors of all ages to see the connection between their own health, a healthy food system, and a healthy environment. Slide Ranch’s 134 acre nature preserve is located along the Marin County coast, just 30 minutes north of the Golden Gate Bridge. A historic dairy farm dating back to the late-1800's, Slide Ranch was established in 1970 and has been providing farm-based environmental education ever since. From its inception, Slide Ranch has focused specifically on connecting socio-economically disadvantaged communities with limited access to outdoor experiences to the transformative beauty and bounty of the West Marin coastal lands and its farming tradition. In 1976, Slide Ranch became one of the first Park Partners in the new Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Slide Ranch staff work with school teachers and program leaders to customize experiential education sessions that meet the needs, interests and abilities of their students and align with California Educational Standards. Our hands-on/minds-on approach engages students of all ages and learning styles, encouraging them to connect with their surroundings by exploring with all of their senses: touch, taste, smell, sight, and sound. Student engagement is further assured by teaching small group sizes of eight students per Slide Ranch teacher. Whether hiking trails, exploring native plant ecosystems or tide pooling, planting or harvesting food in the garden, milking goats or feeding chickens, building compost or cooking farm-to-table, students develop and apply their knowledge of Bay Area natural history, sustainable agriculture and environmental science.

Located on 65 scenic acres in the Hudson Valley, Phillies Bridge Farm Project demonstrates and promotes local agriculture that is ecologically sound, community oriented, and economically viable. The Farm Project achieves these goals through farm demonstrations, educational programs, internships, research, dissemination of information, distribution of food to those in need, and the operation of a working farm. Our major programs include: Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program that provides fresh, sustainably produced food to over 200 local familes. Through our School Field Trip program we host over 1,000 local children on the farm each year. Farm Camp provides a unique hands-on summer experience for children 5- 14. Growing Together engages parents and their toddlers in planting, harvesting, cooking on the farm. We also offer after school programs, educational birthday parties, workshops, and community events throughout the year. Farm to Families Program provides fresh vegetables and education to over 1,000 needy residents in Ulster County.