We will provide a 6- to 24-month holistic, transitional living program based on a working farm for up to 12 women leaving North Carolina prisons. Residents will be partially, and perhaps eventually fully, self-supporting through growing their own food, their labor contribution to the farm, and the sale of harvests through local farmers markets, a Community Supported Agriculture program, and sales to restaurants and institutions. We also hope to provide a portion of our harvest to low-income communities through partnerships with food banks and churches.
Benevolence Farm recognizes that change must come from within, but can be cultivated and inspired from the outside through a supportive, natural environment. Our goal is to give our participants the time and space -- figuratively and literally -- to make real, lasting changes.
Participants will develop skills in organic farming, small business practices, food preparation and presentation in an environment that fosters improved physical, spiritual and financial health. Residents will actively contribute to the well-being of the farm, staking a claim in the program's -- and more importantly their own -- success.
We are creating the program to become self-supporting through the production and sale of sustainably grown produce and products, thereby ensuring that the program continues to serve as many women as possible. Benevolence Farm is unique in combining a sustainable environment with a holistic social service mission thereby creating a mutually beneficial relationship enabling the healing of people with and through the healing of the earth.
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