What EarthLinks is about: 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 First Steps Toward

Employment 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

Green Fingers Project, these women, men, and children 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.