… is providing good nutritious food for our students. With our New Beginnings Farm, we have more acreage, 3 greenhouses, 3 ponds for tilapia, many pigs and chickens and are growing lots of vegetables. When we are able to buy more land, we hope to grow beans and corn, but for now we buy beans and corn and add kale, tomatoes, squash, cabbage, and tilapia to our meals. Our experienced farm manager is instrumental in our production. If we have any surplus, we can sell it to provide income for our school. By providing healthy snacks and meals to our students, we have noticed a big improvement in their well-being and happiness!
We have several bee hives on a section of our farm so that we have honey to share or sell. Our dairy cows are being tended and provide milk.
We are building secure storage facilities when we can and we hope to someday acquire refrigeration and freezer storage for our produce.
The farm is also used for hands-on experience to teach students and widows better ways to farm. The students can help their families produce more through farming, and the women are able to better provide for their families.
We have established a pig program from our surplus and we give a young pig to a family to raise. This changes the family’s financial situation. We also are able to provide some families with plots of ground where they can grow corn and beans.