Care Farms Cultivate Healing Across Delaware
Care farms provide growth and recovery through the power of nature. By Olivia Montes Ally Kennedy, founder of Grateful Acres, holds Greta, a hen who lives on the farm. Photographs by Angie Gray. Off a busy Delaware highway, down a gravel road, and just beyond a blooming green meadow stands a barn. If […]
Old School Farms is harvesting hope with therapeutic farming!
Photojournalist Nathan Sharkey takes us to Old School Farms! The non-profit uses therapeutic farming practices and employs adults with developmental disabilities, known as “mission farmers,” who grow, harvest & deliver produce to food insecure communities in Nashville. The farm provides a supportive work environment where everyone feels comfortable and can learn about organic, regenerative agriculture. […]
Bridging the gap: Expanding opportunities for employees with disabilities alleviates shortages
By Sloane M. Perron In a world of workforce shortages and competitive job markets, companies are developing creative hiring strategies and looking at untapped talent pools. Through technology and companies actively seeking to diversify their workforces, more work opportunities are being crafted for individuals with disabilities. According to Maine’s Department of Labor, 16% of working-age […]
CFR DONOR SPOTLIGHT: RED WIGGLER CARE FARM
For March’s blog, we reached out to our contact at Red Wiggler Care Farm, Rachel Armistead. Red Wiggler has been a member of Community Food Rescue since 2016 and has donated 22,732lbs (18,943 meals) since then. Read on to hear what Rachel shared with us. “Red Wiggler Care Farm, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit here in Montgomery County, […]
At Plant For A Change, all people, regardless of ability, work side-by-side
Nashville’s News Channel 5 profiled Plant For A Change, a Tennessee-based employer empowering an inclusive and accessible conservation workforce through cultivating native habitats with keystone plants.
Re-Creating the “Asylum Farm”
Today’s state hospital patients sit idle on massive grounds designed to sustain meaningful work. Author: John Hirschauer Though it’s often said that America “closed the asylums” in the twentieth century, every state still operates at least one public mental institution. These facilities, called state hospitals, are the last stop on each state’s continuum of care […]
Fertile Ground for Inclusivity: Differently Abled Adults Discover Farming
As you leave the two-lane highway to enter the graveled road that leads to the 12-acre Red Wiggler farm, an eastern towhee darts across your path and the wilderness opens on your left. Then the large red barn comes into view. To your right lies the heartbeat of the farm, the multipurpose building where the […]
Green Care Farms spreads roots
Waterloo alumni are expanding care for people living with dementia By University Relations Waterloo Magazine Nestled between apple and cherry tree orchards on a half-acre of rural land between Milton and Guelph, Ont., Green Care Farms is ready for planting. Incorporated in 2021, Rebekah Churchyard (BA ’13, BSW ’14) launched Canada’s first care farm specifically […]
Open Farms is ‘care farming’ for everyone
SPRINGVILLE – Have you heard of “care farming?” A popular practice in Europe, care farms are the use of therapeutic farm practices to help promote health, well-being and belonging. The belief is that farming the land, helping with animals and getting your hands dirty will help improve a person’s mental and physical health. Combining the […]
From Hobby to Mission: Ending Food Insecurity in the DC area
Fields 4 Valor Farms was featured on Good Morning America. Watch as founder Peter Scott shares how he is farming to help food-insecure veterans in the D.C. region.