This place is really awesome. The staff is friendly, knowledge and passionate. You will definitely learn and experience incredible things here. Great informative classes you will enjoy! Be safe and wear a mask, thank you.
Echo is a fantastic place. A nonprofit organization dedicated to growing food. Their charitable work takes them all over the world. Have been a dedicated customer since 1999. The staff is friendly and very knowledgeable. You can buy seeds and other products on their website as well as at their nursery and store.
Great place to bring the family and a wonderful organisation. Helping reduce poverty in the world. I really like the innovations they come up with that are applied all over the world. Keep up the great work!
ECHO is such a unique place with such an amazing mission. They have a very friendly, dedicated staff that are very knowledgeable. It is a great place to volunteer because there are a range of important tasks. It is also a great place to tour because of the diversity of the plants and innovations they have.
I took a tour here with my class at FGCU, it was very neat seeing and learning about the plants and animals. I love that ECHO is trying to help people around the world to get the food they need to survive. They offer knowledge on what to grow and how to grow. I think my favorite part was seeing some baby goats. They were so cute!
Interesting tour but WAY TOO LONG
This is an amazing place to tour!
If I could give them more stars I would. Incredibly friendly and helpful. I had just purchased a home and wanted to plant some fruit trees but knew nothing about it. They helped me pick exactly what would be best for what I was looking for. All their plants are geared towards success is SW Florida so thats great. Charlie is so knowledgeable and willing to take the time to inform you of the process to set you up for success. Cant say enough good things. Ive already been 3 times and will be planning to go back again to keep expanding the variety.
A must visit if self-sufficiency in farming holds your interest. Wonderful project, may God grant you success!
Echo G F. is truly a veggie mission of love to feed starving nations by sharing seeds.At home I have an immigrant Palm from P. R.See my orphant coconut plant, I found it 10 yrs. ago in Florida, P. R., approved by customs to bring to Florida, USA and now it has a home in Paradise, Cape Coral FL. USA
Fantastic edible plants at great prices
Just a really nice fantastic nursery with reasonable prices for exotic items!! My son and friends had a wonderful time looking at all the top notch cared for plants and trees!! Thanks!! We will come and visit again and hopefully due the tour.
Drove 2 hours to do the tour and they charged us (two people) $20 something dollars to walk around with a tour guide who didn’t know what jackfruit, Canistel, sapodilla, black sapote, Eugenia (genus of trees) was. Meaning we walked past dozens of these trees and the tour guide didn’t point out any of those trees. It wasn’t until I pointed them out did the tour guide explain they had no idea what each one was.... Tour guide didn’t know what a swale was either. They didn’t explain any of the different animal model /exhibit stations either; just said “here’s goats”/“here’s ducks”/“here’s bunnies” with no further explanation of the model... really disappointed in my visit. Would love to learn at echo but I would never pay $20 again to follow a tour guide who doesn’t even know what a jackfruit tree is! Come on!
Great tour, growing things to feed the hungry worldwide
Nice place. Found a natural garlic bug spray for mosquitoes
Really love this place. I do wish they would add posting an up to date list of available plants to someones job description though!
Echo is a great place to visit and a great charity. It is worth it to do each of the tours once if you can. They also have a great gift shop, which is not something I say often. Overall it is a very enjoyable experience. I really hope they change the world.
So many amazing plants, good for food and some beautiful flowers, too.
The people are very nice and informative. It gets better when you volunteer
I’ve been here it’s a nice place and has very nice people here .So if your in the area you need to go check it out .
Echo has been instrumental in the development of Buckets of Rain, which today produces 100k servings of vegetables for the homeless in Detroit every season. Dr. Price, Dr Fountain... the Doerrs, Richard Chapin, all were inspirational in our early years God Bless you for your service.
Great place to learn about Agriculture from around the world.
Five of us drove down from St Pete. What an awesome day!! The tour was interresting and informative, a really cool educational experience. The fun part was shopping for interresting plants and trees. Which are all healthy and strong. I purchased a Jackfruit, black sapote, and passion plum vine. Another possitive is supporting a good cause. Thank you Echo for all you do. Deffinately will go back!!
I have been driving over 100 miles to Echo Nursery for the past 5 years because they had the best of everything. I am still refraining from going back after being treated rudely by staff when I arrived at 3PM on a Friday in March hoping to buy soil enhancer, only to be told by the female closing the office door that they were closed. Odd their posted signs all said they were open. They dont seem to need customers from the U.S. Just our donations.
We were so excited since learning of Eco Farm. We told family & friends all about how excited we were to SEE this place. We finally were able to travel to Ft Meyers for a visit, a 5 hour drive. I called for information, I felt the woman was rude, at best she was short with me, she had no interest in me, she said go to the website. Which I had already done. We were crushed. We had hope to do a tour then spend a week volunteering. That wont be happening. We dont care to spend our time and money to be treated badly.
Eye opening place! Exactly what missions should be.
I was frustrated they did not sell bamboo shoots. :( :(
ECHO global farm is extremely innovative. The tour was very informative. They are helping farmers around the world to feed their families and communities. The tour was very family friendly, but involves a lot of walking. Make sure to bring water.
Took the tour here for the first time and first visit, guide was nice and informative and kept it entertaining. Even answered all our annoying newbie questions. Nursery is one of a kind 5++ star amazing. The only reason is a 4 star instead of 5 is the website and online information is real garbage and very difficult to navigate. In our age where we rely on the internet so often. Would love to see a online list of what is available in the nursery even at a basic level because they shift from completely sold out for 6 months to we have too many of these they are on sale and they only way a customer knows is by constantly calling the front desk to check inventory every two weeks or so. For instance today they have a fall sale, everything 10% off and up... No mention whatsoever anywhere but in person. The only reason i know is because i call consistently to ask for specific plants before i drive 3 hours there and back. Dont get me wrong its worth the drive but they could save us both a lot of hassle with decent online presence. Actually the way i found Echo was via someone elses YouTube video who lives In logs Angeles, Google searches didnt clearly define that echo was a nursery at all and obviously the website wasnt clear. My first call to them before my first vist started literally by asking what do you do here, what exactly are you. Anyway thats all, a little constructive criticism maybe but still a amazing place and company.
Ive seen this place in action. Definitely worth checking out and hopefully donating. These folks are helping third world farmers learn how to grow food that can sustain families in different climates around the world. Really amazing work.
This was my first time to volunteer at E.C.H.O. Global Farm. I was very impressed with their love for God and compassion for people. I highly recommend others to experience the blessing of volunteering at E.C.H.O.
On two occasions these folks appeared to be self centered and preoccupied... Nice concept but not really up to speed with the needs of the globe, our planet... Volunteers clearly need some client/service skill sets... Still, right on type of remedial environmental effort--keep strong!
My husband and I had been wanting to visit ECHO in Fort Meyers for quite some time, but havent had a day off together to go. We FINALLY had a free day on his birthday, but when we arrived there was a sign on the gate saying Closed Today For A Special Event. There was no mention of it on the website. After traveling 100 miles to get there, we were heartbroken. Need better website management.
The Garden of Eden is echoed in this oasis of Shalom-peace and purpose.Echo exists to inspire and equip development workers like us here at Tree of Life Organics so the miracle trees like moringa (aka the “Tree of Life”) and chaya/spinach tree plus a host of green manure plants (plants that fix nitrogen for sustainable rich soils) can be cultivated in places where they can make mean the difference between life or starvation.The amazing gardens and incredibly innovative “appropriate technology“ workshops are the visible evidence of the real essence of Echo, which are God– Inspired ideas and technologies that really work. Echo is all about hands-on, effective, lasting education and developing heart/mind/hands so that development workers are truly equipped to innovate and get results with sustainable agriculture. The result? Lasting and growing solutions for all kinds of social problems related to hunger and poverty!Go to ECHO! You will leave forever changed, and ready to be an agent for change!!!- Van Hutchinson, Tree of Life Organics
Great little nursery! Loved the variety of fruit trees and awesome prices. Well worth the drive.
I loved going on the tour here! It was so fun to see all the different things that they have done in order to help people. I bought a few plants afterwords to take them home
Exedllecent..great keep going. Thank you so much!There is so much education going on there it is just wonderful it is very much worth your while to go see this place
Very nice fruit trees and the workers are very helpful in answering questions i hear several negative comments before traveling no matter how far i always call in advance to make sure you are open . thats good advise for anyone whom plans on traveling far away for a visit CALL FIRST, i have only had good experiences here and plan on coming back for more fruit trees soon
The people that work here are so sweet and informative! The prices are great as well!
Awesome location to visit if you enjoy animals, plants, and farming. They promote sustainable agriculture practices. Guided tours and large events occur regularly.
Excellent organization. The facility tour was fantastic. Why variety of agricultural experiment Tatian stations were exhibited. Great knowledge of the staff.
The staff is very knowledgeable the fruit the trees the plant what a way of organic gardening! I purchase Moringa from Echo as they are the only place I have found in our area.
They are amazing here! They help communities in third world countries thrive!
Excellent tour. A must for residents and visitors to the area. Staff is very knowledgeable.
This place has rare varieties of edible plants and fruit trees that you cant get anywhere else.I highly recommend this place.I just wish they could start learning to grow 100%organically and no pesticides instead of conventional.I still love this place.
A very lovely place! Great tours that are very educational! Lovely staff!
This is THE place to get healthy food plants and support a great cause.
Excellent! They train people to teach life sustaining skills to people in underdeveloped areas of the world.
We had a tour of ECHOs Global Farm with the Global Agronomy Section of the American Society of Agronomy. We appreciated the kindness of the staff to host us and show us the awesome work ECHO is doing.
Saw and learned so much. Loved the methane fueled stove from the manure of the local animals.
Unique tour of an excellent organization fighting hunger around the world.
Nice range of plants, grab hold of Aaron if you need any queries about the plants.
Must see places for anyone who is interested in gardening food plants.
Terrific educational value for kids and adults alike.
Took the tour with friends it was a great tour and very informative
Fantastic place!
Very helpful staff.
Work in Nicaragua and love the community.
I have not been there as of yet but the website was very informative and plan on visiting as soon as possible.
Love this place
Such a variety of edible plants