2022 Get the Water Flowing
We are so grateful for community members who rally around local food, farmers and cooperative food systems. This year Ignatius Farm needs your extraordinary support to expand our mission which:
- provides food to the community
- trains new organic regenerative farmers
- provides land & supports for small plot farm enterprises
We have a big goal for 2022: a reliable water supply for Ignatius Farm. We are not in the city where watering your garden just means turning on a nearby faucet. Even as a peri-urban farm, we don’t have that benefit. The newly drilled farm well needs electrical connections, a pump and plumbing, a water storage system, and distribution lines to the fields.
Ignatius farmers are very good at conserving water out of necessity and practice. Thanks to crop diversity, variety selection, cover crops and soil mulches, we use much less than the 1” of weekly rain or irrigation typically required for vegetable growing. In really dry years, though, 50% of average just isn’t enough to grow bountiful vegetables for community nourishment.
This land can provide even more nourishment, beauty and resilience for our community through the innovative enterprises choosing this land as home. Farm tenants are selected for their conservative water use – including those profiled below who are already here! More will come if they have access to water, onsite. Current tenants can tell you first hand about the challenges of relying on a water truck delivery to their field. Land and capital infrastructure costs are often prohibitive for new farmers, but we are creating this opportunity at Ignatius Farm together!
Ignatius Farm launched the well project through securing initial grants and your donations. Now, we need your help to raise $60,000 to complete this project this year.
- Make your contribution today!
- No donation or contribution idea is too small…
- Share our appeal and your farm connection story with your friends and social media followers
- Direct donations for a birthday celebration to Ignatius Farm in lieu of gifts
- Round up your CSA share purchase to the next $100
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Sponsor the well campaign through a corporate donation. Our team can offer your team some great on-farm experiences and other perks to honour your corporate sponsorship. farmmanager@ignatiusguelph.ca
With your friendship and love we have truly grown to be the organic community training farm envisioned some 20 years ago. Working together, we are empowering a diversity of farm enterprises who are growing, learning together, and nourishing our community with food, beauty, and restoration.
Show your love for this vision of a cooperative community farm by supporting the 2022 Get the Water Flowing farm well campaign in any way you are able.
Thank-you, as always, for your solidarity. Heather & the Ignatius Farm team
