2020 #GIVINGTUESDAY
Giving Tuesday is an important day every year, but this year carries come extra weight. Red Wiggler has had to shift our day-to-day activities, but our goal remains the same: Create fertile ground to nourish a healthy and inclusive community.[spacer height=”20px”] This year, we have done just that by:[spacer height=”20px”] Distributing more than 48% of […]
2020 DMV Food Recovery Week: Tours at Our Farm
From October 12-17, 2020, Manna Food Center’s Community Food Rescue and DC Food Recovery Working Group cohosted the 2020 DMV Food Recovery Week. The week’s activities culminated with tours at Red Wiggler Community Farm. Check out this video from WDVM (localDVM.com) about our participation:[spacer height=”20px”] https://www.localdvm.com/news/maryland/organizations-tackle-food-insecurity-with-dmv-food-recovery-week/[spacer height=”20px”] A big THANK YOU to everyone for participating […]
2020 DMV Food Recovery Week (10/12/2020 – 10/17/2020)
As a proud part of the local food chain, Red Wiggler Community Farm has been able to share our harvests with a spectrum of community members and organizations. This year, we have been able to deliver 4,128 total meals and to grow and donate 4,951 pounds (or 2.48 tons) of produce to Manna Food Center’s […]
Happy Mother’s Day 2020
A virtual bouquet! Our fields are full of blooming flowers and we wish we could share them with all of you in person. We know that many of you, like us, won’t be able to be with your mothers this Mother’s Day, so we created this virtual card and image to share with you and […]
Community Days at Red Wiggler
Every Thursday during the winter is a Community Day. During each Community Day, we put work aside, and we come together to share a meal, learn, and have fun. Every Community Day is different. Over the past 8 weeks, we have cooked together, visited nature centers, and kept our commitment to staying active in […]
7th National Farm-Based Education Conference
This fall, we were excited to be a part of the 7th National Farm-Based Education Conference held in Baltimore, MD from November 8-13, 2019. As part of the organizing committee, Red Wiggler organized a Social Care Farming Track which included workshops and a Social Care Farming Meetup for other farms working with vulnerable populations. […]
2019 #GIVINGTUESDAY
[siteorigin_widget class=”WP_Widget_Media_Image”][/siteorigin_widget] This year, Red Wiggler provided employment to 15 adults with developmental disabilities. Our Growers worked over 6,700 hours and earned more than $80,000. Throughout the season more than 400 youth with and without disabilities came to the farm for educational experiences. Our Farm to Group Home and Farm to Food Bank programs […]
Farm Market at the Inter-Faith Chapel at Leisure World
Red Wiggler would like to thank the Inter-Faith Chapel at Leisure World of Maryland in Silver Spring, MD for having our farm market back this August every Thursday from 9 am – 11 am. We also would like to thank all the wonderful residents of Leisure World and community members from Montgomery County who visited […]
Our visit to Marriott International’s Test Kitchen!
Each year Chef Tom O’Gara and his fantastic chefs work with our vegetables to create the dishes served at the Farm to Fork Dinner. This year, as a way to engage our growers further in the dinner, Chef Tom invited a group of them to his home base, Marriott International’s Test Kitchen in Bethesda, MD. The […]
Mid-Atlantic Care Farming Summit
On October 16th, 2018 Red Wiggler Community Farm, in partnership with Future Harvest: Chesapeake Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture produced the first-ever Mid-Atlantic Care Farming Summit, on Red Wiggler’s campus in Germantown, Maryland. Red Wiggler identified 19 farms from 6 different states in America and Italy that work specifically with adults with developmental disabilities. Until recently, space […]