About

EarthLinks is an innovative program that combines the goal of sustaining the planet with that of sustaining the urban poor.

We connect homeless and at-risk, low-income persons with nature, offering innovative programs, providing healing adventures, sense of community, and support toward empowering life changes. Through day trips into nature, garden projects, and GreenFingers our micro-economic development program, these women and men have a chance to experience new learning, the welcome of community, and enjoy the peacefulness of the natural world. The experiences are simple and yet profound. People’s lives are touched, spirits renewed, their bodies relaxed, and prepare them to meet life’s many challenges.

Why We Do What We Do:

As a practical form of Earth literacy with the poor and marginalized, EarthLinks uses Earth that surrounds us as the teacher, the textbook, the classroom and the nurturer of life. We provide new opportunities for our participants, whose lives are often in chaos caused by poverty, homelessness, violence, addictions, or mental health issues. Through day trips into nature, garden projects, and GreenFingers Project, these women and men have a chance to experience new learning, the welcome of community, and enjoy the peacefulness of the natural world. Awareness of the natural world increases, which serves them well as they return to difficult situations where they attempt to make life-giving choices.