Your Impact
Where Your Money Goes
- Financial Breakdown: Click photo to enlarge [PDF]
- What your money funds: Your money funds transport, supplies and equipment for our program participants, such as:
- Transportation
- College visits for high school interns
- Farm visits for urban and rural high school students
- Transportation to restoration sites
- Equipment
- Farming equipment for the California Farm Academy
- Hand tools and shovels
- Supplies
- Supplies for field days, planting and harvesting
- Restoration project supplies: gloves, rain gear, and rubber boots
- Nutritious lunches for high school field days
- Who your money impacts:
- Beginning Farmers - Our California Farm academy trains adults seeking a career in farming. The associated farm incubator provides these adults with access to land, peer to peer mentoring and marketing support.
- High School Students - Who learn about career pathways in Agriculture and Natural Resources conservation through leadership development, hands-on field days and mentoring.
- What your money does:
- For Adults
- 76 California Farm Academy graduates since 2012
- 6 incubator farmers
- 50,000 pounds of fresh produce donated to Yolo Food Bank since 2012
- Capacity building training for 5 new organizations in the SLEWS program model
- 56% of alumni report having a job in agriculture or environmental science
- For Youth
- 1,500 youth impacted by our programs annually
- Over 100 field days to Ag-businesses, post-secondary institutions and restoration sites with High School Students each year
Land-Based Learning operates programs in 20 California counties.