Farming and Learning Have Not Been Canceled.
As I sit on my deck, overlooking the row cover rippling over the eggplant seedlings, and the greenhouse, where our Growers have already started the tomatoes, peppers, kale, lettuce, beets, chard, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, and peas for the season (among many other crops), I have finally found some time to give a quick update on our activities as A Farm Less Ordinary during the Covid-19 crisis.
We are a community within a community at AFLO. There's the one on the farm, where we challenge each other to stay safe while growing food for others, and the one our Growers will go back to when this crisis has passed, which they'll return to with paychecks, self-confidence, and real job skills. Despite the extraordinary working conditions, we are still operating. We are still carrying out our mission, employing and training people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.