When you become an EarthDance Farmhand, you join a community of people teaching regenerative agriculture, growing healthy food for marginalized people, and being voices for change in a fragile food system.
When you join EarthDance Farmhands:
- You provide organic farming and gardening education for 25 - 30 Farm & Garden Apprentices, including scholarships for low-income participants, equipping all with the essential life skill of growing food.
- You support the farm team in not only growing an abundance of highly nutritious food, but also distributing it to people and organizations in need.
- You help us employ Ferguson-area teenagers on the farm and empower them with tools to lead healthier, more resilient lives.
- You enable us to act on behalf of and in alignment with nature, building healthy soil and stewarding a historic organic farm for generations to come.
- You support EarthDance’s new Pay-What-You-Can Farmstand (currently operating at the Ferguson Farmers Market).
Because we believe that everyone’s participation is essential to creating a healthy food system for all, we have created multiple levels for you to join at -- choose what works for you!
Buds (students/budding activists) - $5/month
- Invitation to ‘Farmhands Only’ events on the farm, including a post-shelter-in-place Picnic on the Farm, Saturday, September 12th
- Access to our online collection of EarthDance Farm & Garden classes
- Enjoy a 25% discount on all EarthDance merchandise on our online store
- Receive ‘call to action’ emails to advance the work of establishing healthy food systems
What Difference This Makes to Us Right Now:
Your contribution enables us to donate seedlings to a community or school garden—empowering others to grow their own wellbeing.
Shoots - $24/month
- Taste & Tour of the farm with the Executive Director
- Invitation to ‘Farmhands Only’ events on the farm, including a post-shelter-in-place Picnic on the Farm, Saturday, September 12th
- Access to our online collection of EarthDance Farm & Garden classes
- Enjoy a 25% discount on all EarthDance merchandise on our online store
- Receive ‘call to action’ emails to advance the work of establishing healthy food systems
What Difference This Makes to Us Right Now:
Your contribution supports our Program Director to develop hands-on and virtual garden curricula to share with teachers and students in the Ferguson-Florissant School District.
Fruits -$49/month
- Opportunity to forage and harvest many plants growing ‘wild’ on the farm: persimmons, black walnuts, chickweed, and more
- Taste & Tour of the farm with the Executive Director
- Invitation to ‘Farmhands Only’ events on the farm, including a post-shelter-in-place Picnic on the Farm, Saturday, September 12th
- Access to our online collection of EarthDance Farm & Garden classes
- Enjoy a 25% discount on all EarthDance merchandise on our online store
- Receive ‘call to action’ emails to advance the work of establishing healthy food systems
What Difference This Makes to Us Right Now:
Your contribution supports our efforts to make access to local, organic food available to our neighbors regardless of their income, via EarthDance’s Pay What You Can Farm Stand and produce donations to Ferguson food pantries.
Seeds - $150 or more/month
- Each month, May through September, pick up a share of fresh EarthDance veggies from the Ferguson Farmers Market
- Opportunity to forage and harvest many plants growing ‘wild’ on the farm: persimmons, black walnuts, chickweed, and more
- Taste & Tour of the farm with the Executive Director
- Invitation to ‘Farmhands Only’ events on the farm, including a post-shelter-in-place Picnic on the Farm, Saturday, September 12th
- Access to our online collection of EarthDance Farm & Garden classes
- Enjoy a 25% discount on all EarthDance merchandise on our online store
- Receive ‘call to action’ emails to advance the work of establishing healthy food systems
What Difference This Makes to Us Right Now:
Please contact our office anytime at (314) 521-1006 or support@earthdancefarms.org with any questions.