Smile Farms creates meaningful employment, vocational, and educational opportunities for people with disabilities in agriculture and hospitality. Through our partnerships, participants develop skills, build community, while experiencing the pride and dignity of fulfilling experiences.
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Each Smile Farms campus is a revenue-generating business that can use the funds earned to support its participants’ employment and its mission. Smile Farms works closely with its partners to devise site-specific farming and marketing plans that maximize profitability. It helps fund start-up costs and provides ongoing financial support to the campus based on the number of people employed.
Smile Farms plants, flowers and fresh produce are sold in a variety of venues in the communities where campuses are located; are used in partner organizations’ kitchens; and are donated to local nonprofits serving people who are in need.
