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Stratford Ecological Center - 236 acres of farm and forest
Stratford Ecological Center’s Mission Statement
“Stratford Ecological Center is a non-profit organization
dedicated to the education of children and adults in
understanding the relationship between living things and their environment, thereby fostering an appreciation of the land and
all life that depends on it.”
Stratford’s History• Dr.s Jack and Louise Warner, inspired by their daughter
Gale, had a vision to create an environmental education center and farm on Louise’s father’s land in Delaware.
• Groundbreaking was in the fall of 1991 and Stratford Ecological Center became a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization.
Barn raising, Late Summer
1992
The Animal Barn
The Children’s Garden
The Greenhouse
The Nature Preserve
Programs at the Stratford Ecological Center
• Sustainable Agriculture Demonstration Farm• Environmental Education for Schools, Scouts,
Homeschoolers, etc. • Adult Education• Festivals• Farm Products for Sale• Food Bank Donations• Internships • Volunteer Opportunities• Community Gardens
Harvest Festival 2003
Sustainable Agriculture Demonstration Farm
The Stratford Ecological Center is
Certified Organic
Farm Products For Sale
• Honey• Maple Syrup• Pick-your-own vegetables• Pick-your-own berries• Eggs• Meat (beef, lamb, pork, chicken)• Garden transplants
Stratford’s excess produce is donated to the People in Need food
bank for distribution to Delaware County residents
Environmental Education
• Farm and Field Trips• Summer Day Camps• Adult Education• Sustainable Agriculture Internships• Environmental Education Internships• Specialized Programs
•Experiential, appreciation-based, hands-on learning
“We don’t need farms anymore because we have supermarkets
now.”
- a 4th grade visitor to Stratford
Farm and Field Trips
In-school pre-visit presentation
“If I had influence with the good fairy…I
should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of
wonder so indestructible that it
would last throughout life…”
from Rachel Carson’s
The Sense of Wonder
Stratford Summer Camps
Adult Education
Kombucha tea classSpinning demonstrations and classes
Swamp study
Farm tours and farmer education
Beekeeping class
Wildflower Walk
The Work that Reconnects
The first Canning Circle in 2000
Harvest Fair
Maple Sugar Festival
Annual Events
Kids enjoying Stratford’s Harvest Fair
Internshipsin
Sustainable Agriculture
and Environmental
Education
Internships offer practical farming experience to prospective farmers.
Volunteers are essential to Stratford’s programs
Stratford’s Pond and Prairie
Learn as you teach, Relax as you weed,
Meditate as you milk.Enlighten, Immerse,
Experience,Love, Laugh, Play,
Breathe, Dream, Create.
We invite you to share yourself with children, plants, animals, and the family that is
Stratford.