Vision

 Connect nature and people through land preservation, education, and experience

Mission

Be a thriving & sustainable 1000 acre nature reserve focusing on developing an educational community

Guiding Principles 

•       Model sustainable & creative interaction between nature and people

•  Promote personal growth and well-being of all who interact with Earthtouch

•  Promote  sense of community that involves university students and faculty, community members, board members, and guests participating in sustaining operations

•  Demonstrate respect for all components of the Ecosystem (community of plants, insects, rocks) in all of our actions

•  Make decisions that support community building

•  Ensure economic sustainability to guarantee the Earthtouch legacy

Impact/Outcome

•       Become a learning lab that models sustainable operations balancing interactions between people and nature to ensure long term health of both. 

•  Support education about ecological consciousness and emerging models on sustainability and green energy

•  Include as part of teaching model providing experiences that offer transparency to the processes associated with sustainable living where possible

•  Provide a range of opportunities for people to experience nature

•  Develop thriving and sustainable economic model

•  Expand alliances with the community including colleges and like- minded organizations

•  Expand board to include a balance of business people and environmental people

•  Explore viability of developing new educational community center and ecotourism opportunities

•  Purchase additional land with a target of 1000 acres

The following poem summarizes what we hope those who are involved with Earthtouch find:

To Look at Any Thing by John Moffit

 To look at anything,

If you would know that thing,

You must look at it long:

To look at this green and say,

I have seen spring in these

Woods,” will not do – you must

Be the thing you see:

You must be the dark snakes of

Stems and ferny plumes of leaves,

You must enter in

To the small silences between

The Leaves,

You must take your time

And touch the very peace

They issue from.