WHAT MAKES HERITAGE FARM UNIQUE?
As service providers in the field, we understand the unique issues and concerns a person living with intellectual and developmental disabilities faces. We care about building enduring life skills and have empowered hundreds of participants with those abilities. The skills acquired at Heritage Farm leads families, caregivers and participants to a new confidence and a more self-sufficient future. Here’s how it works:
STEP 1: Complete a Participant Intake.
STEP 2: Receive a Customized & Individualized Plan.*
(*Following Assessments)
STEP 3: Watch your Participant become Empowered and Grow.
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WHAT OPPORTUNITIES DOES HERITAGE FARM PROVIDE?
Individuals who attend Heritage Farm utilize a variety of different artistic mediums from paint, wood, wool and clay as opportunities for self-expression, tactile development, and education. Participants gain experience in farm-related tasks such as caring for small livestock or exploring horticultural endeavors in the vegetable patch, greenhouse and herb gardens. Participants grow their own bounty, gather eggs from the chickens and make jams or jellies from farm grown raspberries and grapes.
Individuals can choose to experience the wood shops or craft rooms to forge wonderful folk arts and other primitives to share with their families and friends. Many opportunities exist for community integration and skill development in areas such as daily living, communication, and interpersonal skills. Offered services include:
OUR TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
Our principle of teaching is based on the belief that an individual’s ability to retain and apply new information is more easily captured through a repetitious and continual delivery of the newly developing skills. By nature, farming is cyclical and thus full of seasonally occurring life lessons and experiences.
We use the framework of project-based learning (PBL) to develop our curriculum and to incorporate the individual skills each participant needs to develop. Through well executed planning and consistent teaching, one can find themselves in a supportive and cultivated environment where new experiences are welcomed and enjoyable learning is unknowingly taking place.
“Heritage Farm is a unique experience for a day program. It is so much more than just a day program in the country. It is a place to call home for the day, a place to grow personally and a place where everyone feels accepted. I hear from my members the daily excitement of what a day on the farm is like. Each member takes away a new experience. They offer everything from hands on learning in a wood shop, gardening skills, healthy eating, and animal care. For one of my members it is has been a place where they feel safe and secure. They feel supported and understood when they are at the farm. ”
