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Last summer ’ s abundant garlic harvest with farm volunteers , growers and staff .
social science talking about where Medicaid services that he was tapping into .” Raimee no longer takes food comes from .”
A few years ago , however , Red fluvoxamine . He has only had one Wiggler upped the ante on education . They started the Care Farming Rebecca came to the Midseizure since 2015 .
Network , a siblinghood of other Atlantic Summit that Red Wiggler hosted in 2018 . After that , farms like theirs . The goal here , besides simply connecting other Blawesome joined the Care Farming Network . “ I love that we have farms to one another , is the dissemination of information . Red a presence there and that I have a Wiggler has been at this for a long way to share , because we ’ re not a time , 25 years . They feel they have program or a micro enterprise . Our something to share . The 16 farms farm is owned and co-operated by of this ever-growing Care Farming Raimee . We are for-profit business . Network seem to agree .
And so our model is quite different
Take Rebecca Sorensen and than a lot of the other models you ’ ll her son , Raimee . They cofounded see out there .” Blawesome Flower Farm in the
There is also A Farm Less fall of 2015 with a grant from the Ordinary . Founded by Greg and North Carolina Division of Vocational Rehabilitation . Raimee is 2016 . Their son , Max , is “ autistic
Maya Weschler in the spring of
on the autism spectrum and has and non-verbal , and has serious been diagnosed with obsessive sensory and attention challenges compulsive anxiety disorder and that require him to be with a caretaker at all times ,” as their website epilepsy . But what has happened at their for-profit flower farm has says . They are steely and committed folks , not easy to deter . They been remarkable . “ Well , if you want to speak in very tangible terms ,” came to the Care Farming Network Rebecca says , “ if you pool Raimee ’ s through Woody Woodroof , Red Medicaid files for the past four Wiggler ’ s founder and executive director . “ We did a little research and years , you can see the steep decline in his access of all these peripheral found out that green care farming ,
green care , as a therapeutic model has been around for a very , very long time . And in that research , we found Woody . He had been around the block a few times and knew what kinds of challenges we were facing .” The network has offered them a wealth of wisdom that they do not have to learn the hard way .
There is strength in numbers too . When all of these farms come together , they can teach something , not just to each other , but to the rest of the country . Rebecca Sorensen sees an opportunity “ to share what we ’ re doing with others , and the impacts that what we ’ re doing has . And not just folks with disabilities , but folks without disabilities who you get to witness this practice . I would love to be able for all of this to get back to the Department of Health and Human Services , so they can say , ‘ Yeah , this is a viable approach to healthcare .’”
The Farm That LearnS
As much as Red Wiggler may be the Care Farming Network ’ s facilitating farm , it is clear that Red Wiggler is not there to be a lecturer . The Care Farming Summit , which hopefully will resume in the near future , is all about a generous sharing of best practices . Each farm learns from the others . Each farm shares with the others . The Weschlers of A Farm Less Ordinary have something to offer to and something to glean from the Sorensens of Blawesome . Put them together with Homefields and Full Pocket Farms and Cura Personalis — you have a genuine library of care farming knowledge .
Then , of course , the growers learn the stuff of being a farmer , perhaps the oldest trade known to
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