To provide an opportunity for women leaving prison to live and work on a farm where they grow food, nourish self and foster community

Homeless & Housing , Temporary Housing

Our farm enterprise programs launched our community supported agricultureprogram (csa) reaching 78 total members with two full 12-week seasons. We started our community tool share program, with 11 total local farms that borrowed tools 86 times throughout the year, saving an estimated 317 hours labor. The farm overall harvested 8592 pounds of vegetables and provided 1400 paid hours of employment for benevolence residents, totaling $10,045 in earned wages. our residential and reentry program launched, receiving over 25 applications for program admissions and admitting 6 full-time residents. Throughout the year we have provided to the residents 520 days of housing, 1500 meals, 8000 miles of transportation, 236 hours of case management, and 256 hours of capacity building workshops. Residents obtained essential career certifications, were admitted to academic degree programs, obtained scholarships for educational programs, celebrated significant sobriety milestones, successfully completed probation and obtained gainful, career-based employment in their fields of interest. advocacy and outreach efforts included continued participation in nc coalition for women reentrants & their children, alamance county food collaborative, and helping to start an alamance county racial equity association (area). We also reached over 500 individuals through hosting the 2017 south eastern social care farming summit, the second chance dine and dance, three ripple effect events, a movie screening and book club around topics of incarceration, and participating in 15 speaking engagements