Learn how Echoing Hope Ranch, a partner of Reap Goodness, empowers adults with autism through sustainable agriculture and community engagement.

At Reap Goodness, we believe that everyone can make a positive impact on the environment and their well-being by growing their own food in harmony with nature. That’s why we’ve embarked on an inspiring mission, bringing together a community of dedicated individuals who are determined to restore our Earth swiftly and ensure ongoing access to healthy foods.

Discover the transformative journey of Ina Lee, an environmental advocate volunteering at Reap Goodness. Join the movement addressing water scarcity, food insecurity, and environmental degradation. Be inspired to make a positive impact - donate, volunteer, or spread the word for a better world!

Today we can announce a partnership with yet another brave organization to take an uncharted road with us at Reap Goodness. Taking the high road is Echoing Hope Ranch of Hereford, Arizona, USA. This good organization supports adults for needed care on their former vacation-ranch site. They have promised to care for the public food forest that Reap Goodness is to develop in the nearby city of Sierra Vista, Arizona, USA.

Reap Goodness is ready to move forward with the plan to design and create a public food forest in a lower-income neighborhood on the west side of Sierra Vista, Arizona. This good effort will benefit the neighborhood for many years to come.

Do you want to heal this planet of ours? Join us here for this message of hope and practical solution.

When we feed the Earth with rain, we feed its heart. But when we harvest the rain, we conserve the Earth’s soul for the future. So, let’s preserve and reserve the priceless treasure (rainwater) with all our pleasure.

Soon, a day will emerge in our lives when a person will be considered ‘wealthy’ not based on the number of valuable treasures he owns, but on how many gallons of water his residential reservoir holds. Strange to think, but soon to be true! Consider our Earth as a tennis ball, then the amount of freshwater it holds will be, more or less, equal to a drop of water placed on the ball. Imagine…

It is love that powers the garden. When you manage to harmonize a garden with nature, then so much of the work is done for you.

The forest garden is a practical way in which humans can once more learn to work in harmony with nature. It is a very healing garden for, not only does it heal the gardener, it also helps to heal the planet and re-integrate us with the rhythms of nature. Just being in the garden is a wonderful, peaceful, and healing experience.

Food forests, or edible forest gardens, are life-filled places that not only provide food for people, but also habitat for wildlife, carbon sequestering, biodiversity, natural soil building, beauty and tranquility, and a host of other benefits – you just need to take a page from Mother Nature’s book.

Although using permaculture techniques to develop a food forest is a new concept, humans have always been managing forests and growing their own foods for ages. In ancient times, farmers manually sowed seeds and reaped the harvest with tools, not machines. They were helped by Nature’s experts – the pollinators, microbes, and soil diggers who were also considered as one of the leading contributors in creating the diverse vegetation in the forests…

Imagine the gateway to an edible forest garden as your at-home refrigerator door – you open the door and you are overjoyed to see the varied evergreen and nutritious fruits and veggies all stocked up throughout the year! WOW! Less frequent trips to the grocery stores – meaning less pollution on our planet and a scoring healthy-wealthy lifestyle.

The rhetoric surrounding climate change activism often employs the concept of “saving the planet.” The planet in question got along just fine before human beings walked its face, and in all likelihood, she would get along at least as well if all trace of us had faded. Human beings depend on Earth far more than she depends on us, and it is indicative of our misapprehension of this relationship that presumes otherwise…

Instead of adopting ‘Food Forestry and Permaculture’ techniques, we are deliberately leaning toward ‘animal husbandry.’ Do you know we are straining our planet by reaping its benefits and exploiting its natural resources with our unsustainable food choices?

Although ‘food’ is a very personal necessity, ‘food choices’ have global impacts. As consumer demand increases, fast-food markets are struggling to meet the requirements. However, as consumers, isn’t it our responsibility to maintain sustainable food choices for a healthy ecosystem?

Despite being aware of the long-term health consequences of eating fast food regularly, we still experience a ‘brain fog’ while choosing a meal from the elaborate menu at a fast-food restaurant. We overlook the salads and ultimately end up buying a calorie-dense takeaway meal. Why does it happen?

Have you been to a supermarket or restaurant lately? What was the recent ‘food/drink’ advertisement you watched? I bet it was tempting, right? Believe me, every time I visit a restaurant or supermarket, my inner child urges me to grab and pop some of them in my mouth. Anyone can fall for them - you too?

Have you ever wondered why we feel so energetic and satiated after nibbling on a plate full of green veggies (or a bowl of colorful fruits)? And, on the contrary, why do we experience fatigue, drowsiness, and lethargy after gobbling down a cheesy hamburger?

It came to pass that humans on this planet had a need for architecture. With that in mind we see that housing for protection from the wild has been needed for millennia. As soon as humans came to rely on natural habitats, such as caves and even small curves in mountainsides, gathered that safe places could be made from natural resources…