Why This Farm?
WHY THIS FARM?
Tikkun Farm is a 3.5-acre nonprofit urban farm in Mt. Healthy, Cincinnati. The land includes animals, gardens, a food forest, compost, growing spaces, and places to gather.
But the Farm is not simply a collection of projects. It is a living place where meaningful work and spiritual practice meet.
Animals can teach us about community. A food forest can reveal the strength of diversity and interdependence. Compost can show how what appears finished can become the source of new life. Caring for living things asks us to pay attention, learn what is needed, keep showing up, and take responsibility.
The Farm is not simply where Tikkun’s work happens. The Farm is part of the work.
Because how we see shapes how we live.
Tikkun and Repair
Tikkun Means Repair
Tikkun means repair or restore. The name holds an old idea at the heart of this place: that people, communities, relationships, and Creation can participate in healing and restoration. We understand restoration broadly: the healing of people, relationships, communities, and Creation. We believe meaningful work, spiritual practice, hospitality, and relationship with the living world can help create conditions for that restoration.
At Tikkun Farm, that work happens close to the ground—in the care of animals and soil, in meaningful work, in spiritual practice, in hospitality, and in the ways people learn to live alongside one another.
Vision
Tikkun Farm’s vision is to serve by restoring: People, Community, and Creation.
Mission
Tikkun Farm is a nonprofit neighborhood farm engaged in the sacred work of restoring people, community, and creation by offering visitors, guests and volunteers opportunities to engage in meaningful work and spiritual practices.
Our Story
Our Story
The former dairy farm was purchased in 2010. In 2015 it offered a home to a non-profit to support the neighborhood. Over it’s eleven years since then the farm has provided land for Bhutanese refugees to farm, welcomed local non-profits to meet in the milkhouse, created a fiber arts maker space, hosted summer camps and an after-school program for underserved neighborhood youth, delivered 300 weekly crockpot meals during COVID, served almost 50,000 people annually through the Free Market pantry, hosted countless service groups and partnered with local schools to raise baby chicks.
Tikkun Farm offers yoga, serves community meals, welcomes writing groups, and takes in animal rescues.
More than 200 volunteers/week partner with us in the meaningful work of feeding our neighbors, caring for creation, tending to animals, preparing youth for jobs, educating children about the environment, growing food, and healing trauma.
We offer spaces to practice the spiritual disciplines that heal our hearts and grow our capacity to love. We welcome people to participate in sacred gatherings, quiet days, retreats, drum circles, and spiritual direction.
People
Reflections from the Farm
Our monthly newsletter includes a reflection on lessons learned from Creation and Community, as well as highlights of upcoming gatherings and events.
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