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RESOURCES

A list of resources and partners in which we/Mentors can explore with our mentees and youth clients.

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  • The Scrappy Elephant: Address: 1745 Allied St Suite C, Charlottesville, VA 22903. Mentors can take mentees for their session, including group sessions by signing up to use the studio. We have a special code "LOVE" so that studio rental is just $5. Book HERE! If "LOVE" code does not work, we can use code "BBBS". 

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  • Cultivate Charlottesville: Cultivate Charlottesville engages with youth and community to build a healthy and just food system. We believe that working together to grow gardens, share food and power, and advocate for just systems – cultivates a healthy community for all. Food is a human right and we aim to create food equity – personally, in community, and across systems and structures. Together we are growing, sharing, and advocating for food equity: https://cultivatecharlottesville.org/

 

  • Discovery Museum: https://vadm.org/ -  a small, nonprofit children's museum for families with infants to kids age 8. VDM seeks to foster intellectual curiosity and development for all children in our community through hands-on educational, exploratory, and imaginative play across 6,000 square feet of exhibit space. 524 East Main Street, Charlottesville, VA 22902 (East End of the Downtown Mall just before the Pavillion). (434) 977-1025

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  • Neal Gropen, Founder of Gropen, Inc. Design Build - an independent constructioner, designer, and builder seeing projects from the beginning to fruition. Email: nhgropen@gmail.com. Phone: (434) 466-5607. Great opportunity to learn a new trade, and or earn income. Paying opportunities for applicable youth in LNE Mentoring Program. 

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  • Nealand Farm, Scottsville, Virginia. Local and Sustainable Produce. Food, Education, and Community. www.nealand.farm. Contact: isaac@nealand.farm. A great connection for our youth mentees and LNE Adventure Events to bring kids to experience.

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  • The Quarry Gardens at Schuyler: 1643 Salem Rd, Schuyler, VA 22969. Trails and bridges quide you around two abandoned, water-filled soapstone quarries, and through a conservation landscape that showcases the intersection of restoration ecology and cultural resource management. Contact Rachel Floyd at rachel.floyd75@gmail.com or Devin Floyd at devin.floyd@gmail.com, (434) 882-7772

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  • Positive Paws K-9 Angels: nonprofit organization that offers specialized training for therapy dogs and has many established community partnerships for visits. Located: 2510 W Main Street, Waynesboro, VA 22980. EM: positivepawsk9@gmail.com PH: (540) 569-9211

 

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  • Blue Dog Farm is in Afton and is home to chickens, sheep, horses, lambs, and two large and friendly dogs. Lambs should be on the ground by April.

  • Bottoms Up Farm (same owner as Blue Dog Farm) is in Nellysford. No one lives on this property. It is 20 acres of bottom land along a fork of the Rockfish River. There is a fire pit, bell tent, and river access. Contact Mary Beck, mpb2h123@gmail.com, (434) 981-7579

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  • Independent Resource: John and Maggie Murphy. Resolution Farms: 823 Old Turner Mountain Lane, C'ville 22901. LNE can take kids here for farming projects that include pulling weeds, planting, gardening, and more. Contact Email: resolutionfarms@gmail.com. Contact Phone: 434-242-1145 (John).

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