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| Sr. Carolyn Hoff |
Michaela Farm
Sisters of St. Francis
P.O. BOX 100
Oldenburg, IN 47036
(812) 933-0661
E-mail: michaelafarm@seidata.com
www.oldenburgfranciscans.org/farm.html
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Michaela Farm, a ministry of the Sisters of St. Francis Oldenburg, is a 150-year old diversified farm. We use biodynamic, natural farming, and sustainable practices. The farm includes vegetable, fruit and herb gardens, orchards, beefalo. Our markets include a 30 member CSA, the Oldenburg Franciscan Sisters. This is a 300-acre farm, with three acres of garden and orchard space.
Programs: Volunteers-in-Residence or WWOOFers can join us for up to two weeks in exchange for lodging (private bedrooms; community kitchen, living room, laundry and bathroom facilities) and food stipend. In season food may be available from the garden. Participants supply their own basic needs. Your time may be extended if this is mutually beneficial. Volunteers will do chores like working in the garden like: working in the garden harvesting, weeding, and planting or picking fruit in the orchards.
Organic Status: not certified, use natural farming practiced
Active: year round
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| Sr. Ann Sullivan (Sisters of Providence) |
White Violet Center for Eco-Justice;
1 Sisters of Providence,
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, IN 47876-1089;
812-535-3131 x 525/
812-535-4551;
Wvc@spsmw.org
ASulliva@spsmw.org
www.whiteviolet.org
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The Center, a ministry of the Sisters of Providence, exists on 1200 acres to foster a way of living that recognizes the interdependence of all creation. It includes a community supported agriculture garden established in 1996 using the companion gardening technique and greenhouse on four acres, seven acres of antique-apple orchards and berry patches, beehives, alpacas that provide fleece the Sisters spin for yarn and fiber, a strawbale retreat house, bluebird nest box network, 200-acre wetland-forestland-prairie restoration project, and a Masters in Earth Literacy Program with Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. They moved to organic farming on its 380 cropland-acres in 1995, a decision based on the principles of substantive justice and ecological sustainability. The organic food is used in the community’s Motherhouse. They grow green soybeans as a trial with Purdue University. Through organic agriculture, eco-justice education, and social advocacy, the Center promotes an awareness and a way of living that includes preservation, restoration, and reverent use of all natural resources and forms of life. Nearly 3000 people participate in their educational activities annually. [2003.] |
| Sr. Jolise May, PHJC or Sr. Mary Baird, PHJC (Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ) |
The Ancilla Domini Sisters,
P.O. Box 1,
Donaldson, IN 46513;
219-936-9936/
219-935-1785
www.poorhandmaids.com
SJolisem@poorhandmaids.org
mbaird24@hotmail.com
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* This 1000 acre area includes woodland, pasture, wetlands restored with the assistance of government programs, grain and forage cropland, a community supported agriculture program garden, 16 acre wildlife habitat area, and a lake restoration project. A land management committee established in 1991 has developed and is implementing a comprehensive natural resources management plan with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. A satellite Earthworks Community in Plymouth, Indiana, conducts workshops in the summer and fall that educate about and model sustainable living. A wetland septic system was recently installed there. [2001] |
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