The Community and Farm Working Together
Victory Acres has compost bins for combining leaves and leftovers.
Victory Acres has a give and take relationship with the surrounding community. It helps the community by growing crops for consumers, letting schools take tours of the property, providing internships, to giving people a place to live and teaching them a trait. Members of the community give back to the farm by offering time and monetary donations. Local universities even give back to the farm.
Taylor University, Ball State University and Indiana Wesleyan University all give back to Victory Acres. All the universities donate leaves for compost and all have had interns lend a hand on the farm in previous years. Taylor University also gives leftover food they would normally throw out to the farm. The farm then uses the leftover to feed some of its animals, mainly pigs.
Along with the leftovers and the leaves, Taylor University promised to donate money to help the farm.
“Taylor (University) promised to donate $5,000 to the rebuild a barn fund,” Eric Himelick said, the pastor at Victory Inner-City Ministries.
Indiana Wesleyan University was given a grant this past year and participated in the Growing Growers Program. The Growing Growers Program is a small-scale agricultural incubator at Victory Acres where farmers can develop the production of specialty crops. The farm hopes that after farmers participate they then can go out and start their own farms or continue to farm at Victory Acres. Victory Acres also anticipates Indiana Wesleyan University returning to Growing Growers in the near future.
Victory Acres does not just help the community, the community helps Victory Acres.
Taylor University, Ball State University and Indiana Wesleyan University all give back to Victory Acres. All the universities donate leaves for compost and all have had interns lend a hand on the farm in previous years. Taylor University also gives leftover food they would normally throw out to the farm. The farm then uses the leftover to feed some of its animals, mainly pigs.
Along with the leftovers and the leaves, Taylor University promised to donate money to help the farm.
“Taylor (University) promised to donate $5,000 to the rebuild a barn fund,” Eric Himelick said, the pastor at Victory Inner-City Ministries.
Indiana Wesleyan University was given a grant this past year and participated in the Growing Growers Program. The Growing Growers Program is a small-scale agricultural incubator at Victory Acres where farmers can develop the production of specialty crops. The farm hopes that after farmers participate they then can go out and start their own farms or continue to farm at Victory Acres. Victory Acres also anticipates Indiana Wesleyan University returning to Growing Growers in the near future.
Victory Acres does not just help the community, the community helps Victory Acres.