The Community Ecology Institute

The Community Ecology Institute's mission is to cultivate communities where people and nature thrive together.

​Our work focuses on tangible, community-level change at the intersection of environment, education, equity, and health. Our initiatives have concentrated on four Cs:
Connection to Nature
Civic Ecology
Community Health
Climate Action

Our Agroecology in Action program provides our community an opportunity to collaborate in the growing of food for our local food system from start to finish. We employ and teach regenerative growing practices in a variety of demonstration gardens to model the role they can play in a community as a food producer, economic driver, and a tool to take climate action. The food grown is distributed to local food assistance programs and at our farm stand.