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Acorn Soupe
Acorn Soupe is a 501(c)(3) public benefit corporation that is committed to keeping our habitats healthy, beautiful, and sustainable, and that includes your backyard! We do it by providing students K-12 with the tools necessary to appreciate their natural world, understand healthy habitat needs, demonstrate leadership skills in making positive decisions regarding the environment and ensure that a healthy and flourishing ecosystem remains through the decades to come. Our unwavering commitment to environmental education makes Acorn Soupe the natural training grounds for the next generation of land stewards who can and will advocate for environmental awareness and environmental health. They will work to heal habitats that will restore and sustain the beauty that surrounds us. They will remind us of how commitment makes a difference and how we all are responsible for making this work.
Education and Outreach
Acorn Soupe provides environmental education for children to develop as land stewards through habitat restoration for public and private lands located in Napa and Sonoma Counties. Our premise is simple: teach children to love the land. Each generation must learn to love the land in their own way and in their own time as an early respect for land and nature leads to life-long stewardship. It is through this teaching and this learning that we pass on the richness of the land's heritage to the next generation.
Restoration, Enhancement and Implementation
Our Youth & Nature Eco-Intervention program brings together Acorn Soupe and The Land Trust of Napa County’s Connolly Ranch in a new collaborative effort. While providing students with the opportunity to participate in unique, outdoor-based, environmental education programs during their school year at no charge, the Eco-Intervention Program focuses on children in grades K-1 who attend the most under-served schools, and thus, have a student population at risk for academic failure. This program funded, in part, by the Napa Valley Vintners’ Auction Napa Valley.
Organization Facts, History, or Background
Founded in 2000, Acorn Soupe began as a grass roots movement in 1997 working with children in the hills of Napa and Sonoma Counties. Experiencing the magic between the children and the land inspired our mission to raise future generations of land stewards within our community. Acorn Soupe's free environmental education programs are offered to K-12 children and teachers along with stewardship projects on public and private lands. Our project- and place-based learning activities focus on habitat restoration and includes activities such as; steelhead trout raise & release, invasive plant removal, native plantings, and water quality monitoring. Acorn Soupe works to connect our children with the land. Acorn Soupe's programs are investments in long term stewardship of our natural resources and wilderness areas. We encourage a sense of environmental responsibility along with a stewardship ethic in local youth. Through Acorn Soupe, students gain an understanding and appreciation for natural ecosystems. They interact with their peers and adults in a cooperative setting while having a positive impact on local environments. Guided by an enthusiastic and dedicated Board of Directors, our naturalists engage over 800 children in stewardship projects each year utilizing hands-on activities and innovative field expeditions. The experiences gained from our programs will instill in children a stewardship and environmental ethic we expect to last their lifetime.
Leadership Type
501(c)3
For more information about the Acorn Soupe Group, visit their website or contact:
1303 Jefferson Street, Suite 200A
Napa, CA 94559
Telephone: 707-254-7284
Fax: 707-254-7377
e-mail: info@acornsoupe.org
Executive Director: Angelina Phillips
