Since its founding in 2008, Great Kids Farm has been fortunate to have a committed and wide range of supporters. We, the Great Kids Farm community, are extremely grateful for the financial resources, the materials and equipment, the incredible volunteer hours and the critical advice and moral support the farm has received from a broad base of people and institutions in Baltimore and across the country.

Learn more about volunteer and donation opportunities at Great Kids Farm.

Financial and Material Support

These visionaries contributed key financial resources early in the Farm's development:

• The Sach's Family Foundation
• Jane Harrison and Richard Cone, in memory of their daughter Tania
• Kaiser Permanente, through partnerships with the Center for a Livable Future and Associated Black Charities
• The Abell Foundation
• The Baltimore Community Foundation
• The Baltimore County Agricultural Resource Center
• The Family League of Baltimore City
• Baltimore's Safe and Sound Campaign
• The Open Society Institute of Baltimore Community Fellows Program

Others contributed animals, equipment and materials:

• Groff's Content Farm donated the goats
• Finch Services was responsible, in part, for the tractor
• Bob and Vanessa Kraft donated the wagon and plow
• Tree and Leaf Farm donated the farm's truck
• Enterprise Community Foundation gave equipment for site deveopment and green renovation
• Tim Witt and his family developed and tended the apiary
• The Growing Connection of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization contributed demonstration Earth Boxes
• The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation provided trees for our orchard

Harvest Festival Sponsors

• Traveler's Insurance – lead sponsor
• Atwater's Bakery
• Baltimore Volunteers Unlimited
• Baugher's Orchards
• Enterprise Community Investment, Inc.
• Roseda Farm
• Two Oceans True Foods, Inc.
• Woodlawn Motor Coach

Institutional Partners

There is a burgeoning web of sustainable agriculture projects in the Batlimore region. We could not do our good work without partnering with the organizations that lead these efforts:

• Baltimore Green Works
• Baltimore Office of Sustainability
• Baltimore Youth Apprenticeship Program
• Center for a Livable Future, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Safe Healing Foundation
• Enterprise Community Foundation
• Parks & People Foundation
• University of Maryland Extension Program
• 32nd Street Market

Advisory Committee

Volunteers

Growing nearly three acres of organic vegetables and flowers, inoculating more than 100 mushroom logs, raising four beehives and planting nearly a half-acre of fruits and berries would not have been possible without the tremendous amount of volunteer hours put in at the farm. Volunteers at Great Kids Farm represent numerous diverse communities:

• More than 3,000 City Schools students and staff
• 20 high school and college-aged interns
• 50 vocational trainees from the Baltimore Youth Apprenticeship Program, an agro-hospitality work and career preparation summer program for young people soon to age out of foster care
• Community groups, businesses and religious congregations that have provided more than 500 volunteers for service day projects.
• Business Volunteers Unlimited has provided invaluable leadership in organizing corporate service days at Great Kids Farm.

Customers for our Food

We are grateful for the early and continued support of local restaurants, our Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) members and farmer's market customers. Special thanks to these restaurant owners for their support of Great Kids Farm by buying our produce and showcasing us on their menus:

• Ned Atwater, Atwater's
• Donna Crivello and Andy Thomas, Donna's of Charles Village
• Spike Gjerde, Woodberry Kitchen
• Jerry Pellegrino, Cork's