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Celebrating 10 years, Creating Resiliency for the next Decade.

RESTORING: People • Community • Creation

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Celebrating 10 years, Creating Resiliency for the next Decade.


Dear Friends,

TIKKUN FARM is CELEBRATING OUR FIRST TEN YEARS.

In our first 10 years we created a sacred space where healing and belonging transforms lives. Your support will help us continue to impact lives for the next decade.

WHEN WE ESTABLISHED TIKKUN FARM AS A NONPROFIT WE SET ITS MISSION: Heal People, Repair Community, Restore Creation.

Over the last decade Tikkun Farm has lived into this vision in the following ways:

HEAL PEOPLE

  • Children's camps offering trauma-informed experiences
  • Supported parents with activities such as writing and yoga
  • Launched Cooking-on-a-Budget classes
  • Delivered Crockpot meal kits to individuals and families during the pandemic
  • Created a Free Market food pantry that offers fresh surplus to those in need
  • Served–45,000+ at the food pantry/year and fed 12,000+ families/49,000+ individuals with the crockpot meals (recent annual figures)
  • Currently exporting food to 12 smaller food pantries around the city.
  • Provided garden space to a local Bhutanese community that supports 50 people.

REPAIR COMMUNITY

  • Developed a job training program to serve young adults and alter the school-to-prison pipeline locally
  • Welcomed our first environmental intern
  • Built an orchard board walk making our Food Forest accessible to neighbors and those with mobility issues
  • Offered retreats, herbalism workshops, Quiet Days Drumming, and Hospice Worker retreats.

RESTORE CREATION

  • 2,500 people per year supported our Creation Care environmental projects
  • Launched an animal care team with weekly volunteers
  • Established Pollinators Gardens, Composting and Education workshops.
  • Environmental education program with schools and other organizations
  • Diverted –830,000 lbs. of waste from landfill
  • Currently exporting 50 tons of compost
  • Established native plant nursery with 120 varieties of native species.

WHAT DOES GROWTH LOOK LIKE FOR TIKKUN FARM?

Stabilizing our funding streams, from 80% grants and 20% donors to 80% donors and 20% grants.

Future Deepening and Growing Existing Programs

Feeding Program - Growth for Nourishing Families

  • Inviting guests to harvest from our food forest
  • Continue our Cooking on a Budget class to feed people body and soul
  • Support the whole person through invitations to be involved in trauma work
  • build a commercial kitchen for food entrepreneurs and expanded educational opportunities
  • Increase export partners as we grow as a food hub that orders food behalf of smaller organizations
  • Encourage other communities to learn from our model

Vocational Education program / Job Training

  • Increase internship opportunities
  • Establish a building trades pre-apprenticeship program
  • Increase opportunities to learn animal husbandry, animal rescue

Creation Care program

  • Grow as a learning center for permaculture
  • Expand native species nursery
  • Expand service-learning experiences for schools and neighbors

Staffing

  • Increase funding to support a paid Executive Director and Development Director to accommodate growth in programs and staff, mentoring, coaching.

Your support can help us continue transforming ordinary visits into extraordinary experiences of nourishment, connection, and healing.

WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT!
Recently a USDA grant, which supported a number of our programs was terminated, we have launched a 10-year anniversary large donor campaign to Stabilize our funding streams, from 80% grants and 20% donors to 80% donors and 20% grants.

Because of our many volunteers and supporters, Tikkun Farm is more than just a place—it’s a community where lives are transformed. Your generosity allows us to create a safe, resilient, and inclusive space where families thrive, individuals can heal, and the earth can be restored. This is the power of your gift. It’s not just a donation; it’s an investment in a brighter, more compassionate future for everyone. Can we count on your support?

Our goal is to raise $100,000 in 2025. We are proud to say that our esteemed Board of Directors have each pledged a generous gift towards our campaign. Your gift, no matter the size, creates ripples of impact in our community.

Thank you for being a vital part of this mission. Thank you for supporting the wholeness of our community.

With gratitude,
Rev. Dr. Mary Laymon
Founder & Executive Director, Tikkun Farm

TikkunFarm.com