Red Wiggler Community Farm _ a 501(c)3 non-profit

Core Values
Red Wiggler Community Farm believes in:
1. Reconnecting people with the source of their food and the local community.
2. Creating an environment of respect, cooperation, integrity, and innovative thinking.
3. Ensuring purposeful work and equal treatment for all stakeholders.
4. Fostering opportunities for outreach and meaningful education of youth, adults, and employees.
5. Building local food security for our community.
6. Being a catalyst for community collaborations and volunteerism.
7. Practicing environmental stewardship through ecologically sensitive best practices.

1. Meaningful employment for adults with developmental disabilities.
Our growers - adults with developmental disabilities - plant, care for, harvest our crops and meet the customers who buy their produce. For many of our growers, their relationship with Red Wiggler goes back 8 years and provides them with employment as well as vocational satisfactions they would not otherwise enjoy. Adults with developmentally disabilities are our primary target population.

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2. Educational opportunities through "service learning"for area youth to participate in all aspects of the growing cycle. Youth with and without disabilities join the farm team to ensure that our vegetables and flowers are given what they need. They help with harvests and often glean food from the fields for delivery to area food banks. Service Learning opportunities are incorporated with educational lessons about environmental stewardship issues. Area youth are our second target population. more

3. Environmental stewardship. We actively preserve open farmland, create and maintain fertile ground using sustainable agricultural practices and open our doors to groups interested in visiting our farm to see how we make it all happen in concert with nature. Those who participate in our CSA program and the general public who learn from Red Wiggler about environmentally friendly farming practices are the third target population.

Our Vision
We create fertile ground to nourish a healthy and inclusive community.
This vision has us serving four different “target populations”. This approach creates a vibrant, dynamic and inclusive community farm where each participant has a place at the table.

4. In Febuary of 2006 our Board of Directors voted to include our Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) in our Mission Statement. Our CSA program really is the backbone of our activities at Red Wiggler. The CSA is the vehicle that propels us towards our Vision of creating a healthy and inclusive community. more