Linda and Gene Farley Center for
     Peace, Justice and Sustainability 

Linda and Gene Farley have farmed their own land for decades, and in typical style, also opened up their land to Cameroonian-, Colombian-, European-, Hmong- and Mexican-American family farmers seeking to grow their own food and supplement their incomes. In keeping with this tradition, forty acres at the Center will be dedicated to community gardens, with several distinct but interrelated goals:

To sustain traditional ethnic gardening practices for individuals for groups or families seeking to improve their food security, maintain their cultural traditions, or earn part of their income from agriculture;

To teach low income, at-risk youth job skills, environmental stewardship and respect for community;

To integrate low income and immigrant groups into local communities, and to bring communities together as they plant, harvest and process food;

To develop viable alternatives to ecologically harmful and fossil fuel intense industrial farming practices; To provide local communities with access to better quality food;

To serve as a source of knowledge, model and inspiration for such projects elsewhere.