Many Hands Sustainability Center

The mission of Many Hands Sustainability Center, Inc., a 501 (c)(3), is to promote methods of sustainable living, including organic agriculture, renewable energy, food preservation, homesteading skills, nutrition and its centrality to human health. The Center works to serve the needs of all populations, including such underserved groups as former prisoners, immigrants, youth and family farmers. The Many Hands Sustainability Center, Inc. has been organized to:

Educate

Educate the public about techniques, products, inputs and devices useful on small, sustainable farms, study ways to make small and family farms a sustainable livelihood in the Northeast

Teach

Teach practical skills related to self-sufficient living, demonstrate ways to build community via collaborative work,

Promote

Promote efforts to move toward sustainability in use of energy, materials, and living organisms foster self-respect and competence in young people,

Encourage

Encourage connections between people of diverse backgrounds via sustainable agriculture and other environmentally benign endeavors,

Develop

Develop the consciousness that in caring for ourselves and each other we must also care for the earth generate awareness of the connection between healthy food and healthy bodies

Cultivate

Cultivate the knowledge and personal qualities necessary to create economically sustainable enterprises

Provide

Provide food insecure individuals and groups with access to sustainably produced and healthy foods

We have been on our land for 44 growing seasons now, raising our four children here as well as many new farmers. This year, with some ill-timed health issues. excessive summer heat and no rain, and severe livestock predation, we considered hanging it up. Instead, spurred on by a long-time friend and customer, we appealed to our friends and customers for assistance in upgrading our irrigation and our fencing and animal predation protection. We received an overwhelming response which, along with a blessed rain on at least a weekly basis since October 1, helped pull us out of the financial hole we were in and prepare for new systems in 2026. With all these miraculous people around us, community farming seems to be in our long-term future here.