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.
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 ‘Members Only’ events on the farm, including a post-shelter-in-place Picnic on the Farm
- Complimentary attendance for one Farm & Garden class
- 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 provides our food distribution team with masks and gloves to ensure safer distribution.
Shoots - $24/month
- Taste & Tour of the farm with the Executive Director
- Invitation to ‘Members Only’ events on the farm, including a post-shelter-in-place Picnic on the Farm
- Complimentary attendance for you and a friend to one Farm & Garden class
- 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 Youth Educator in researching and designing accessible program options for our Junior Farm Crew to continue to provide meaningful summer employment and education in the event we’re unable to host the Junior Farm Crew on the farm this summer
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 ‘Members Only’ events on the farm, including a post-shelter-in-place Picnic on the Farm
- Complimentary attendance for you and a friend to one Farm & Garden class
- 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 makes it possible for us to respond quickly to our neighbors’ needs, delivering produce to elderly residents at their homes, and to Ferguson food pantries serving families in our community.
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 ‘Members Only’ events on the farm, including a post-shelter-in-place Picnic on the Farm
- Complimentary attendance for you and a friend to one Farm & Garden class
- 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 us in rapidly implementing a Pay What You Can model of distributing our food and working with partners and community members to come up with additional creative ways to increase healthy food access at this critical time.
Please contact our office anytime at (314) 521-1006 or development@earthdancefarms.org with any questions.