16805 Mountain Road Montpelier VA 23192
Community Partnerships
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We believe that our goals may align with yours and that a community partnership with you would serve as a long- term mutually beneficial relationship.
Building strong communities, leading by example, teaching the purpose of helping one another and uniting, teaching individual contribution and connection, sustainability and the importance of individual stewardship for our communities and the world we all share.
The story: Jana Strickland launched a business in 1997 with zoo and farm animals. The journey began and it quickly became Magic. The vision and passion: to teach others about all kinds of animals, learning about, from and through them. The importance of animals’ relationships in their groups that they live in (herds, flocks, colonies, etc.), this enables their purpose, sustainability of the area they live with their community groups. The ecological value that they all have.
Today, our mission and passions are the same inspired by Jana Strickland so long ago: Animals Unlimited provides environmental educational programs with our zoo animal programs and the barnyard buddies program. We serve many individuals; private and public schools PK- 7th aligning with the life science curriculum providing instructional support, preschools, daycares, organizations serving those with intellectual disabilities, camps, counties, community members.
We offer an interactive hands-on approach to learning, teaching the importance of individual stewardship and compassion for all things. Life science. We reached in 2025 approximately 20,160 community members of all backgrounds and all ages. This is our mobile unit. We are now in the process of expanding our services by opening the facility to the public. Interested in becoming involved. Connect with us Lets talk about it.
Life science encompasses 6 years of academic study starting with PreK and continuing to 7thgrade. It is imperative to learn that we are connected, and every day we can all make a difference. Life science teaches the ecological values of plants and animals, the interlinking components and connection of all things living and non- living, learning that we all have a responsibility to the world around us, stewardship doing our part and how we can all make a difference, conservation, protecting habitat and natural resources( reduce, reuse and recycle) , learning the interdependence with the living and non-living aspects of our world.
Our mission through an interactive hands-on approach is to inspire this connection, developing unity, individual purpose, sustainability and stewardship the love for all things.
Project Connect We strongly believe that individuals of all ages young and old need to have this experience of being around, learning from and through animals. This is an unforgettable magical transformational experience. Planting a lifelong seed one person at a time.
