Langton Green Community Farm

Today I'm talking with John at Langton Green Community Farm. You can follow on Facebook as well.

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00:56 You can find them at homegrowncollective.org. If you're enjoying this podcast, please like, subscribe, share it with a friend, or leave a comment. Thank you. Today I'm talking with John at Langton Green Community Farm  in Maryland. Is that right, John? Yes, ma'am. We're in Millersville, Maryland outside of Annapolis.  Okay, cool. Good morning. How are you? I'm doing well. Good. I am so excited to have you on the show because

01:22 This community farm thing you've got going on is huge. So tell me about it. Well, Lankton Green has been primarily providing residential services for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities since the early eighties.  About 15 years ago, we started also doing day services, which tends to be vocational or activities based for a small number of our consumers.  But we're always

01:50 looking for more to do on an ongoing basis. So after a couple of years of doing a lot of landscaping and commercial and residential cleaning contracts,  our former executive director went to a conference and met some people who operated a small residential program on a farm in California  and said, hey, could we do something like this?  Which was exactly the kind of thing that I was already engaged in personally.

02:18 doing a lot of  suburban homesteading kind of stuff, a lot of  gardening and canning. So it definitely matched a lot of my personal interests.  A lot of my job coaches and staff also had experience working in horticulture and landscaping. So there was a natural tie in there.  So I spent the next couple of years working with our board of directors,  going through some mentorships with local agricultural organizations  and

02:48 looking at properties locally to actually develop an expansion of our existing day services program to be focused on an agricultural property. The spot that we found