When you buy from Good Sweet Earth, you're helping us protect God's creation
Sustainable agriculture. Clean watersheds. Locally-grown food. Healthy soil. Ecological education. These are the things that matter to us at Good Sweet Earth, and when you purchase our products and services, you're supporting organizations that fight for those things as well.
We share a portion of our profits every year with two amazing organizations that share our goals. For 2019, those organizations are Farm Aid and the Outdoor Discovery Center Network. That means when you buy from us, you're having a positive impact on our planet far beyond the edge of your yard. And because of this, we can confidently say that at Good Sweet Earth, we're healing the planet, one yard at a time.
Farm Aid
Farm Aid is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to keep family farmers on the land. Farm Aid accomplishes this mission by:
Outdoor Discovery Center Network
The ODC Network, based in Holland, MI, is an education and conservation organization that was founded to connect people with nature through outdoor education for the benefit of wildlife and the conservation of the natural world.
Their educational focus includes:
Their conservation efforts focus on keeping our waterways clean and protecting area wildlife:
We share a portion of our profits every year with two amazing organizations that share our goals. For 2019, those organizations are Farm Aid and the Outdoor Discovery Center Network. That means when you buy from us, you're having a positive impact on our planet far beyond the edge of your yard. And because of this, we can confidently say that at Good Sweet Earth, we're healing the planet, one yard at a time.
Farm Aid
Farm Aid is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to keep family farmers on the land. Farm Aid accomplishes this mission by:
- Promoting food from family farms.
- Growing the Good Food movement through grants.
- Helping family farmers survive through emergency financial assistance.
- Taking action to change the system; Farm Aid works with local, regional and national organizations to promote fair farm policies and protest harmful factory farms.
Outdoor Discovery Center Network
The ODC Network, based in Holland, MI, is an education and conservation organization that was founded to connect people with nature through outdoor education for the benefit of wildlife and the conservation of the natural world.
Their educational focus includes:
- The Outdoor Discovery Center
- Little Hawks Discovery Preschool (in partnership with Hamilton Public Schools)
- DeGraaf Nature Center
- The ODC Education Network
- The ODC Explorer Network
Their conservation efforts focus on keeping our waterways clean and protecting area wildlife:
- Macatawa River Greenway (a project to protect the banks, floodplain forest, marsh, meadows, and wetlands along the Macatawa River in Holland and Zeeland)
- Kalamazoo River Greenway (a project addressing environmental restoration, recreation, conservation and education along the Kalamazoo River in Allegan County)
- Project Clarity (a community-wide partnership committed to improving the health and clarity of Lake Macatawa and the Macatawa Watershed by slowing water down and reducing the amount of sediment and nutrients that currently pollute them)
- ODC Conversation Services (keeping out invasive species, encouraging native plantings, hunter safety education and trail installation)
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