Johanna’s Hope empowers people with different abilities by facilitating social connections and accessible environments to explore art and nature at Jo’s Farm and throughout our local community on the North Fork of Long Island.

Our brand new ReWild garden is providing access and creating awareness about native plant gardening to our program participants, their families, and caregivers, as well as Johanna’s Hope supporters.  The garden is situated at the front of the Johanna’s Hope property in the middle of an accessible driveway, complete with a vertical and horizontal wheelchair-friendly walkway.  

The goal is to continue transforming Jo’s Farm into as sustainable a space as possible.  We are proud to use compost from our 17 resident chickens to enrich the soil of our native garden.

We also feed any edible by-products of the garden to our goats and chickens. 

We are already noticing how hardy our new native plants are and how happy our resident honeybees and many other pollinators are to have such wonderful blooms to forage on. 

As a small and thoughtful non-profit organization, this grant opportunity is truly a perfect complement to the purpose and objectives of Johanna’s Hope.  Observing and helping to maintain the balance of nature as the purest of all the arts is at the heart of what we seek to impart to all who visit Jo’s Farm.

Get involved with the ReWild garden at Johanna’s Hope, please email eileenbenthal@johannashope.org.