At Ark Gardens, every project falls under the SEED Initiatives (Sustainable Education for Earth & Dignity).
Our goal: To restore food sovereignty, education, sustainability, animal care, and community healing through hands-in-the-dirt action.

Here’s what we’ve been doing — and where we’re growing:

🎯 Current Objectives

Expand Food Forests and Greenhouse Builds

• Site scouting, design, and planning underway in Chester, PA
• Collaboration with Food Forest Abundance (Jim Gale) for turnkey food forest installations and greenhouse schools
• Advance Educational Partnerships
• Active alliance with The Liberation Academy for building off-grid, hybrid learning centers

Supporting summer camps, rotating faculty models, and full SEED curriculums

• Strengthen Community Engagement
• Outreach to recovery centers, city councils, and neighborhood organizations
• Telegram channel for The ATHENA Project live and growing
• Informational flyers distributed in Chester and Philadelphia regions
• Develop Comprehensive Animal Care Programs
• Launch and expansion of The ATHENA Project (stray animal rescue + adoption)
• Building a volunteer base for ongoing dog rescue, care, and placement
• Educational programs teaching compassion and sustainable animal care
• Promote Environmental Stewardship
• Planting pollinator gardens, food forests, and micro-farms
• Teaching regenerative agriculture techniques to children and adults
• Incorporating native species to restore natural habitats
• Secure Sustainable Funding
• Active fundraising through GiveSendGo for The Tulio Project (turtle sanctuary and education)
• Developing sponsorship and donor packages tied directly to SEED objectives
• Launch Education & Training Programs
• Workshop development: topics in food growing, composting, animal rescue, permaculture, and natural building
• Collaboration with Liberation Academy faculty to extend SEED learning into hybrid school models
• Build Volunteer Stewardship Teams
• Organizing stewardship groups for long-term site maintenance and growth
• Training local leaders in organic gardening, permaculture, and land regeneration
• Measure and Expand Impact
• Tracking food grown, animals rescued, students engaged, and communities reached
• Setting clear benchmarks for expansion into other cities and states
• 🛠️ Accomplishments to Date

✅ Secured land negotiations in Chester, PA for The ATHENA Project

• ✅ Created The Tulio Project: A turtle sanctuary and youth education model
• ✅ Established partnership with The Liberation Academy for hybrid education
• ✅ Joined forces with Food Forest Abundance to build schools and greenhouse systems
• ✅ Built outreach channels (Telegram, Flyers, Website) to connect communities
• ✅ Distributed initial informational materials in Chester and Philadelphia
• ✅ Began community-based animal rescue operations under The ATHENA Project
• ✅ Developed multiple SEED-aligned workshops and curriculum drafts for future programs
• ✅ Launched public fundraising efforts to directly support food, habitat, and education growth
• ✅ Built first educational models around food forest creation for hybrid learning centers
• 🌿 It’s all SEED Initiatives.

Every forest we plant, every animal we rescue, every greenhouse we raise — it’s all part of building Sustainable Education for Earth & Dignity.

We don’t just dream about change.
We plant it. We grow it. We live it. We teach it. We teach others to teach it.