Noonday Farm
Noonday Farm is the answer to a longtime dream of
having a place to nourish our bodies with the fruit of the earth and our spirits with the
life lived at a different pace. Children and a radical commitment to community are
marks of the farm as is a constant struggle to work for peace and justice.
In the spirit of the mandate "to minister to the needs of society's
forgotten people, and to challenge and offer alternatives to attitudes, institutions, and
structures that create and perpetuate suffering and violence," Noonday Farm seeks:
To function as a sustainable community. (Sustainability shall be defined
as the ability to serve the above mandate in continual harmony with
Earth and without
dependence upon the artificial and destructive forces of the corporate/monetary/military system.) It will work toward the ability to provide for its energy needs
(food, heat, electricity) as locally as possible from naturally renewable resources,
keeping consumption to a basic and challenging level of comfort and using methods and
technology accessible to everyone.
To live as mutually and communally as possible in order to reduce
consumption and build relationship with land and each other.
To grow food in an organic way in varieties and quantities
so that we may
be locally reliant, creating as much abundance as possible to share with those in need.
To function as a learning center for those interested in working on the
production of food and other energy sources in a "sustainable" way.
To provide temporary hospitality to those interested in learning about
and participating in the lifestyle of the farm, especially those in the Haley House
community.
To establish an interdependent working and social relationship with the
local community.
In working toward these goals:
Adults members of the continual farm community contribute the work week
to the maintenance and/or production work of the farm.
Each adult member of the family in the continual farm community is
responsible for his/her own personal needs such as food, heat, electricity, health care,
and transportation. Inasmuch as the farm is able to produce any or all of these,
they are shared according to need.
Operation, maintenance and capital improvements of the farm come from
donations, grants, or any income which the farm may produce. Generally, however, the
farm does not seek to produce income except as it does not interfere with the purposes
outlined above.
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