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Cultivating Dreams
(845) 592 8731
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  • The Cultivating Dreams greenhouse provides a skill building environment.
  • Therapeutic farming offers time to grow in the greenhouse.
  • Day program participants plant seeds on the farm.
  • People with disabilities learn agricultural job skills like working with soil.
A YEAR ROUND Agricultural
Experience

Our farm has two greenhouses which are used year round to provide a skill building environment for fun and learning. An agricultural training curriculum is implemented as a guide for teaching people the basics of planting, raising and harvesting simple crops. 


People come to engage, learn, and grow.
farm TO TABLE 

Cultivating Dreams shares each harvest with those who helped to create it as well as a variety of local volunteer organizations. A portion of the chemically-free herbs and spices go to the Good Reasons company to help make their delicious all-natural dog treats.

Hands-on pre-vocational experiences that can help people who are looking to find work.
  • Taking time to smell the marigolds is part of the recreational farm programming.
  • Day program participants plant seeds on the farm.
  • Therapeutic farming offers time to grow in the greenhouse.
  • Socialization
  • Young woman in day habilitation holds peppers she harvested.
  • Prevocational activities for adults with disabilities involves working together.
  • Agricultural skill training involves harvesting peppers in the greenhouse.
  • A resident of the Life Skills Center sets the table in the dining room.
  • Woman practices meal prep in the Life Skills kitchen.
  • The living room provides an inviting space for peer socialization.
  • Home maintenance skills like folding laundry are taught at the Life Skills Center.
  • The Life Skills Center provides a home-like atmosphere in the kitchen and dining area.
  • Playing with the air hockey table is a time for peer socialization.
  • Washing dishes in the Life Skills kitchen teaches how to care for belongings.
  • Individuals with disabilities prepare drinks in the Life Skills Center kitchen.
  • The Cultivating Dreams Life Skills Center has fully furnished bedrooms.bedroom
  • The front of the Life Skills Center, a fully furnished home.
Life Skills Center

On the farm sits a fully furnished house. It gives people a warm inviting atmosphere for peer socialization and to teach the life skills required to maintain a home, care for themselves and their personal belongings.


The house has a laundry facility, fully equipped kitchen, a computer center, bedrooms & baths.


Providing tools to help others become self-reliant.
Teambuilding & Socialization

Everyone deserves the chance to be part of an amazing group of people with common interests. Cultivating Dreams offers an opportunity to meet and spend leisure time with newly acquired friends.

Friendships are formed, bonds are forged.
  • Day habilitation on the farm provides opportunities to meet new friends.
  • Socialization
  • Playing with and caring for a puppy is part of the skill building day program.
  • summer fun
  • Joining friends under the parachute promotes recreation and fitness on the farm.
  • Playing with the air hockey table is a time for peer socialization.
  • Soccer playing is one of the outdoor activities to promote health and fitness.
  • Playing volleyball promotes recreation and wellness for adults in the day habilitation program.
  • This young man tosses bean bags during outdoor activity time on the farm.
  • Playing with and caring for a puppy is part of the skill building day program.
recreation & Fitness

Fresh air and exercise are a perfect blend for promoting wellness. Here at Cultivating Dreams, engaging outdoor activities are scheduled to promote health and fitness to the best of each person's abilities.


Having fun while keeping fit.

Nutrition

Our state of the art kitchen helps to teach basic meal preparation skills while learning about healthy choices.


Healthy diet and exercise promote person-centered wellness.
  • Woman practices meal prep in the Life Skills kitchen.
  • Individuals with disabilities prepare drinks in the Life Skills Center kitchen.
  • The Life Skills Center provides a home-like atmosphere in the kitchen and dining area.
  • BluePath autism service dog makes a friendly connection.
  • Playing with and caring for a puppy is part of the skill building day program.
  • Dog walking teaches the life skills of responsibility and caring for a pet.
  • Dog Day provides time to meet friends and learn about pet care.
  • BluePath autism service dog sits with woman on the farm.
  • Dog walking is part of the wellness and pet care part of the residential program.
Pet Care

Cultivating Dreams is home to a growing number of small pets. Learning to care for another living being teaches responsibility and gives people a sense of purpose.

Some new friends have four legs and a tail.
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Cultivating Dreams
where growth is nurtured & dreams blossom
OUR MISSION

“Our mission is to provide each individual the best possible quality of life through residential and community based opportunities. Our strong compassionate culture demands that all decisions be made in the best interests of the individuals we serve.”

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Cultivating dreams

Cultivating Dreams is a fun, skill building experience available to people

being supported through Community Based Services (CBS).

Set on a small farm in the heart of Dutchess County, Cultivating Dreams offers

a strong emphasis on agriculture activities, pre-vocational skill building and community inclusion. People have the opportunity for hands-on experiences gardening, growing fruits and vegetables, and taking care of small animals. Our activities are designed to be meaningful and to provide each person with enhanced self-advocacy skills and a greater sense of purpose in the community.

Cultivating Dreams:
 Where individual growth is nurtured and dreams blossom.
  • Spending time in the day services program at the farm will allow people to develop a strong connection to the environment and realizing the possibilities for future employment.
  • By doing actual farm labor, people will recognize the importance of their contributions, while realizing their capabilities.
  • People will learn to understand where their food comes from by growing and harvesting food.
  • People will gain a sense of the lifecycle of plants and animals, while learning to appreciate how all things are connected.
  • People will learn to care for an animal, to fully appreciate what it means to nurture another being.
Contact us

For more information contact us either directly or fill out our contact form! We are looking forward to hearing from you. 


18 Meadow Road Hopewell Junction, NY 12533
(845) 592 8731

Betty Rivadeneira
Director of Day Programs

info@cultivatingdreams.org