Red Tomato Farm & Inn is a program of Hempfield Behavioral Health. The aim of our farm is to provide adults with intellectual disabilities meaningful work rooted in farm tasks that create opportunities to interact with the general public and community. In our design, we seized on themes of sustainability, integration, volunteerism, ecology, and community to provide relevant, skill-enhancing opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities and the public more generally.
The Farm Life: Farms are busy places, whether you are starting seeds in the greenhouse, planting and tending gardens, harvesting, using produce, maintaining and repairing farm property and equipment, or feeding, cleaning, and caring for animals. Farms are real and earthy and have a natural daily and seasonal cycle. The farm is hard work, but hugely gratifying because they generate feelings of pride in accomplishment, cooperation, teamwork, determination, closeness to nature productivity, and self-sufficiency. Farming is a 365-day-a-year endeavor so participants will eventually attend to farm tasks on various schedules throughout the seven-day week all year long.
Community Grounded: The general public may participate at the farm as owners of livestock with participants managing their care and feeding and as members of yoga, art, or cooking classes provided at the farm and inn. We welcome overnight guests at the inn. Reservations will be taken via Airbnb and VRBO.