RESOURCES

Nearby Trails, Rivers, and Natural Areas:

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• Rivanna Trail: download a map at https://www.rivannatrails.org/Map/ . Or download the app All Trails from the App Store for Iphone and Android.

• Ragged Mountain Natural Area - note: LNE adopted a piece of the trail here. Signage will be going up soon!

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Arts:

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• McGuffey Art Center: Lindsay Heider Diamond  -  Lindsay opens up her art studio at McGuffey for youth. Email: lindsayh@lindsayheider.com   Phone: (434) 227-1175

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• McGuffey Art Center: Anna Fox Ryan - Anna opens up her art studio at McGuffey for youth. Email: annafoxryan@gmail.com - Phone: (434) 962-5046

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• The Scrappy Elephant: Sarah Sweet  -  Sarah opens up her art studio  for youth. Email: sarah@scrappyelephant.com  -  Phone: (434) 962-6288

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• Yoga For Kids, Polina Mischeko, Phd.  Mindfulness, Meditation, and Movement Coach. Polina does private session of Yoga for kids. Email: polina.mischenko@gmail.com  -  Phone: ?

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• Scottsville Center For The Arts and Nature: Classes offered for all the arts. Nature and Trails: located at 455 Hardware Street, across from the Scottsville Cemetery. Contact: GETCURIOUS@SVILLEARTSANDNATURE.ORG.

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Organizations:

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• Wildrock: a playscape for youth, outdoor adventures, trails, streams, barn, and more. https://www.wildrock.org/ Email: info@wildrock.org  -   Phone: 434-823-5100  - Meg Phillips, Meg@wildrock.org

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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!

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• Botanical Garden of The Piedmont - https://piedmontgarden.org/  - The mission of the Botanical Garden of the Piedmont is to welcome all community members and visitors to engage in nature, to inspire learning through the beauty and importance of plants, to advance sustainability, and to promote human and environmental well-being.  Contact: Bruce Gatling-Austin, Email programs@piedmontgarden.org. And Jill Trischman-Marks, Email j.trischman.marks@piedmontgarden.org.  This natural area is accessible at any time sunrise to sunset located directly across CHS Football Field. 

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• Living Earth School, Hub Knott, Email: hub.k@livingearthschool.org - Phone: Office (434) 260-0086 Cell (434) 981-0595

 

• 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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Animal Sanctuaries and Animal Related Places:

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• Rockfish Wildlife Sanctuary: Rehabilitating wildlife & educating our community.  Address: 5450 Wheelers Cove Rd.,  Shipman, VA 22971

 

• 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

 

• GOAAT Educational Services - Mary Jo Hollis, M. Ed. (918) 805-4872 www.goaat.org. EM: mj@goaat.org _ Goal-oriented animal assisted teachings!

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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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