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What You Can Do This Earth Day

Doing your part for the planet doesn’t have to be hard. You can make a big impact by making small changes in your everyday life.

Learn more about Turn Off the Water Works With This Gardening Hack From Tanzania.
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Turn Off the Water Works With This Gardening Hack From Tanzania

Students in the drought-prone region of Igunga, Tanzania are using recycled discarded plastic bottles to water their school gardens. You can use the same method at home to repurpose the plastic bottles in your recycling bin and keep your garden green — and your water bill low — in the warmest weather!

Learn more about How to Make a Windowsill Bee Garden.
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How to Make a Windowsill Bee Garden

Have limited space, but still want to help save bees? Plant a bee garden on your windowsill!

Kusu Maya Malla harvests vegetables from her kitchen garden in Nepal.

Easy Changes that Have a Big Impact

  • Recycle 
  • Use energy-efficient bulbs
  • Eat local
  • Switch to reusable grocery bags
  • Ditch paper towels
  • Plant a garden

What We're Doing

For us at Heifer International and our partnering farmers, every day is Earth Day! Together, we’re growing a better world… for ourselves, for our children, for our planet.

Learn more about What is Regenerative Agriculture?.
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What Is Regenerative Agriculture?

Regenerative agriculture means stewarding the land to create a balanced ecosystem in which the cycles of nature work symbiotically and freely.

Learn more about How Does Climate Change Affect Agriculture?.
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How Does Climate Change Affect Agriculture?

Everyone on the planet feels the effects of climate change, but the climate crisis is especially impactful on agriculture and the world’s smallholder farmers.

Learn more about Heal the Soil, Heal the World.
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Heal the Soil, Heal the World

At Heifer Ranch, the team cares for the animals above the ground as well as those below — the communities of tiny, soil-dwelling creatures that builds the land’s resilience to climate shocks.

Learn more about Food Smart, Climate Smart: 4 Ways Heifer Promotes Sustainable Food Around the World.
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Food Smart, Climate Smart: 4 Ways Heifer Promotes Sustainable Food Around the World

Feeding the world’s 7.9 billion people is no small task. Around the globe, Heifer promotes farming processes that increase production, build resilience and improve environmental sustainability.

Learn more about Birds and Beavers: Return of Native Species Signals Ecological Resilience at Heifer Ranch.
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Birds and Beavers: Return of Native Species Signals Ecological Resilience at Heifer Ranch

As the pastures and animals of Heifer Ranch have flourished, native species have prospered alongside them — a welcome indication of a healthy, resilient ecosystem.

Learn more about How Galápagos Island Farmers Are Protecting Their Paradise.
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How Galápagos Island Farmers Are Protecting Their Paradise

Alongside the local government, Heifer Ecuador is working with Galápagos Island farmers to build a sustainable food system for one of the most revered places on the planet.

Learn more about No More Praying for Rain: Well Brings Water to Nepal’s Waterless.
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No More Praying for Rain: Well Brings Water to Nepal’s Waterless

Like many smallholder farmers in Nepal, Tara Devi Mahato depended on unreliable rainfall to irrigate her crops. Now, thanks to Heifer Nepal and a farmer-owned agribusiness, she no longer prays to the rain gods — Tara uses a well instead.

How Do We Feed Ourselves AND Save the Planet?

HELP us grow a better world

When you give to Heifer, you help the farmers who are helping our planet. 

DID YOU KNOW? 

Small-scale farmers produce one-third of the world’s food, helping to nourish the planet’s 7.9 billion people. Around the globe, our expert staff work with farmers as they integrate climate-smart agricultural practices on their farms to increase resilience and crop production.

From soil and water management to improved livestock farming to sustainable energy, we aim to address the intersecting challenges of food security and a changing climate.

HELP us grow a better world

When you give to Heifer, you help the farmers who are helping our planet. 

DID YOU KNOW? 

Small-scale farmers produce one-third of the world’s food, helping to nourish the planet’s 7.9 billion people. Around the globe, our expert staff work with farmers as they integrate climate-smart agricultural practices on their farms to increase resilience and crop production.

From soil and water management to improved livestock farming to sustainable energy, we aim to address the intersecting challenges of food security and a changing climate.

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