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Causes: Education
Mission: Rooted in Wyoming partners with community organizations and schools to facilitate outreach programs and cultivate educational gardens.
Results: Rooted in Wyoming envisions a future where everyone in our state has access to fresh local foods and is motivated to grow their own food.
Target demographics: encourage appreciation and stewardship of our natural environment, connections with our area history, and inter-generational learning and recreation.
Direct beneficiaries per year: over 2,000 students.
Geographic areas served: partnering garden programs
Programs: inclusive hands-on through seed-starting kits, school garden partnerships and collaborations, and alternative engagement through special projects like Community Farm Walls and Arts in the Garden.
This nonprofit is a group of doers! The first garden project at Big Horn was completed with sheer grit and determination and funds from the pockets of the founding members. As they have forged forward developing fundraising strategies, strategic planning and formal board training, they are moving in the right direction will achieve their goals to educate our youth about the importance of local food production.
