Heathcote partners with private individuals and local organizations to achieve common goals. Past and current joint project include work with agro-ecology, hosting retreats or partner workshops, environmental monitoring projects, and education.
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Past Partnerships
PASA Alley Cropping Project:
Partnered with CHEARS and Many Streams Farm (MSF)
This CHEARS project implemented, modeled, and measured the impact of two Project draw-down solutions: Tree Intercropping/alley cropping and fostering a Plant Based Diet. Learn more about the findings here.
CHIO-SQ Seed Saving Project:
Partnered with CHEARS (Chesapeake Education, Arts, Research Society)
Seed Quest was a co-learning and citizen science initiative to help foster seed literacy. Seeds help in propagating and growing native plants. The goal was to save open pollinated seeds and establish one or more seed exchange libraries. For a Summary of the CHIO-SQ project click here for the final report submitted to the Chesapeake Bay Trust for the one year mini-grant. The project is continuing through work on free seed libraries in each of the Three Sisters Gardens and continued work on the Adopt a Seed Project supporting the work of the Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance (UCFA).
Chesapeake Climate Countdown Citizen Science (CCCCS) Project
Partners: CHEARS, Many Streams Farm (MSF), STEAM Onward
Through a Community Engagement Mini-Grant from the Chesapeake Bay Trust, CCCCS partnered with Heathcote Education Center and other local nonprofits in demonstrating sustainable agriculture low-impact practices. These practices foster watershed health and support the Great Food Transition in this decade.
The project partners hosted a series of webinars. Watch them here.
Partnered with ‘Where’s Your Tree?’, an advocate and partner for restorative, urban green initiatives.
The JourneyWomxn Fund/Caregivers Program Retreats (CPR) was an outreach initiative of partnering with Heathcote to provide space for 1 or 2 participants at a time. Participants attended retreats in safe, rural settings without cost. Retreats were open to mid-, and late-career BIPOC womxn who are Newark residents and caregivers also bridging lives as artists, food growers, healers, and juggling responsibilities that compete with realizing creative, personal goals.