2025
Annual
Report
2025 was the year of tremendous expected growth, but DOGE put a stop to that. So 2025 is instead where I and my committed donors threw what we could at the wall and had our most significant outreach season yet!
2025
“NASA, EPA, and NIH was in the bag. and our projects for year over year growth were positive. Then came March 2025.”
Jim Bruner, Futurist Farmer and Alpha Animal
2025
The loss of nearly 2/3 of our funding was deeply unexpected.
Much of our planned growth and investments were put on hold or cancelled. Our camps and your fabulous donations made all the difference.
I used credit to push us through the year. The MenTerns program was critical to me. Every MenTern came to camp for free. This was their proving year. They trained, they swallowed their fears and doubts and they got an excellent education on leadership and real-world experience, That worth every dime I paid.
2025
Despite the setbacks, with your donations and the fees the parents paid for camps (no grants for scholarships) we bosted our outreach from 1,758 in 2024 to 4,538! That’s a 38% increase in one year.
Your gifts and support allowed Mezzacello, our interns, and MenTerns keep pushing the boundaries of innovation, engagement, getting our name out their in the STEM field.
I hope you never forget how much your investment in Mezzacello Urban Farm has meant to my team and the citizens and school children of Central Ohio!
Top Left: MenTerns teaching Summer Camp kids how to manage Solar and Wind Power and working on understanding the physics, logic, and logistics of 19th Century concepts and 21st Century realities.
Bottom Left: A Girl Scout experiencing a chicken for the first time in her intro to sustainable agriculture camp at Mezzacello Urban Farm. The camp was co-sponsored with Girl Scouts of Ohio’s Heartland.
Top Right: Charles Chickens at Metro Middle School with a middle schooler. They were discussing genetics, DNA, data science and how computer programming exists because of DNA, Data, The transistor and the threat of Nuclear War.
Bottom Right: A visit to the Metro Bodies program at the PAST Innovation Lab. During this session we discussed my medical condition and how as curious and engaged learners we have to sometimes reframe the problem and look at it with a fresh perspective.
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