CAMPUS AND PARTNER INFORMATION
Smile Farms' campus and partnerships are the highlight of the programming. Our 13 campuses with 8 different partners serve over 375 individuals across New York with intellectual, developmental, and mental health disabilities. Through meaningful employment and training opportunities, our Farmers, Growers, Sellers, and Staffers, and Shippers contribute to their communities.
Smile Farms at IGHL, Moriches, NY - the organization’s flagship campus - provides programs, services, and support for over 80 people with intellectual disabilities. Smile Farmers grow annuals, perennials, and herbs in 19 greenhouses; plants are sold in an on-site retail store and wholesale to local florists and businesses.
Address: 1 Montauk Hwy, Moriches, NY 11955
Phone Number: (631) 874-2470
Partnership established: 2015
Smile Farms at IGHL Opportunity Center, Manorville, NY features a greenhouse and four raised beds where Smile Farmers grow produce for use in IGHL kitchen and residences.
Address: 221 N Sunrise Service Rd, Manorville, NY 11949
Phone Number: (631) 874-2470
Partnership established: 2015
Smile Farms at Holly’s Guest House (IGHL), Center Moriches, NY, hosts IGHL families at its on-site bed-and-breakfast. Smile Farmers grow organic vegetables across eight raised beds; produce from this garden is used to create meals for guests of Holly’s House and for the residents at IGHL group homes. Peppers grown at this site are contributed to Smile Farms’ Heat with Heart hot sauce.
Address: 23 Montauk Hwy, Center Moriches, NY 11934
Phone Number: (631) 874-2470
Partnership established: 2015
Smile Farms at Cornell Cooperative Extension, in partnership with IGHL, Yaphank, NY, serves as a nonprofit community education resource where Smile Farmers grow organic vegetables to offset food costs at IGHL facilities. The Farmers with disabilities work alongside the crew at the Cornell Cooperative Extension to tend and care for garden boxes to beautify the Suffolk County Farm.
Address: 350 Yaphank Avenue, Yaphank, NY 11980
Phone Number: (631) 852-4600
Partnership established: 2015
Smile Farms at League Education & Treatment Center (LETC), Brooklyn, NY, serves adults and children with psychiatric and intellectual disabilities. Smile Farmers tend eight raised beds, a hoop house that allows for year-round operations, and a sensory garden. Farmers work throughout the week to grow peppers, cucumbers, flowers, and herbs. Crops grown at Smile Farms at LETC are sold in-house and at the Park Slope Farmers' Market throughout the growing season. The program at Smile Farms at LETC also hires Smile Staffers to work in the hospitality field, in connection with Chef Tom Colicchio's restaurant group Crafted Hospitality.
Address: 567 Kingston Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11203
Phone Number: (718) 643-5300
Partnership established: 2021
Smile Farms at The Viscardi Center, Albertson, NY, runs a transitional program for young adults and adults with developmental disabilities and educates children with physical disabilities. To prepare future gardeners, The Viscardi Center has incorporated horticulture into its science and culinary curriculum. As a result, the newest generation of Smile Farmers are benefitting from programming at this campus. Eggplant, zucchini, and tomato are just some of the crops being crown to be used in the culinary program which gets sold at the in-school market. Students also grow a variety of peppers for Heat with Heart hot sauce.
Address: 201 I U Willets Rd, Albertson, NY 11507
Phone Number: (516) 465-1400
Partnership established: 2017
Smile Farms at Family Residences and Essential Enterprises, Inc. (FREE), Oakdale, NY, provides vocational training for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Smile Farmers tend 24 raised beds, growing vegetables and herbs, with the harvest put to use in FREE’s on-site culinary program. Recent highlights at this campus include growing cucumbers to make and sell pickles. Farmers also grow a range of peppers to contribute to the Heat with Heart hot sauce. Additionally, Smile Farms at FREE hired individuals from the FREE Community Services to work at Smile Shippers and Smile Sellers. Smile Shippers are responsible for the distribution, shipping, and handling of online hot sauce orders. Smile Sellers are the faces of Smile Farms at Farmers' Markets, including the biweekly market at NYU Langone Hospital in Mineola.
Address: 405 Locust Ave, Oakdale, NY 11769
Phone Number: (631) 567-1626
Partnership established: 2021
Smile Farms at CP Unlimited, creates opportunities for individuals with developmental disabilities, including Cerebral Palsy, to grow produce, providing them with marketable skills, independence, and mental wellness benefits. The facility’s greenhouses feature raised beds growing sweet and hot peppers for Smile Farms’ signature hot sauce, as well as herbs and other vegetables for local Farmers' Markets. Smile Farms at CP Unlimited also hires Smile Staffers to work in hospitality through Crafted Hospitality.
Address: 2324 Forest Ave, Staten Island, NY, 10303
Phone Number: (718) 447-8205
Partnership established: 2021
Smile Farms at Nassau BOCES: Rosemary Kennedy Center, Wantagh, NY, educates students with mild to severe developmental disabilities: 10 teachers guide 78 students to tend 12 raised cedar beds growing peppers, midnight tomatoes, and other specialty crops. 12” grow labs inside classrooms allow students to learn about food production. Smile Farms at Nassau BOCES employs a paid part-time student as a Smile Farmer. The harvest at this campus is used in on-site student lunches, sold at the in-school Farmer's Market, and donated to the Town of Hempstead Conservation and Waterways and Senior Center and the Meadowbrook Alternative Program at Brookside.
Address: 2860 North Jerusalem Ave, Wantagh, NY 11793
Phone Number: (516) 396-2600
Partnership established: 2019
Smile Farms at FREE - Saddle Rock Ranch offers work readiness training and gainful employment opportunities for 20 participants, who grow produce to support FREE’s culinary programs, their donation delivery service, FREEpods, which support over 75 individuals on a weekly basis, and fuel Smile Farms’ booth at the newly launched NYU Langone Hospital – Long Island Farmer’s Market. Saddle Rock’s greenhouse and garden provide meaningful and functional agricultural experiences that are enjoyed throughout the year by over 100 participants.
Address: 41 Coram Swezeytown Road, Middle Island, New York
Phone Number: (631) 205-0432
Partnership established: 2021
Smile Farms at Catholic Health, Garden City, NY, Smile Farmers tend 5 raised gardening beds at Mercy Behavioral Health Center. Crops grown include lettuces, tomatoes, cucumber, eggplant, summer squash, string beans, herbs, garlic, and strawberries. All produce grown at Smile Farms at Catholic Health is donated to Mercy Hospital’s Family Care Program, where it is distributed to people who are food insecure.
Address: 506 Stewart Ave, Garden City, NY 11530
Phone: (516) 705-3400
Partnership established and garden constructed: 2023
Smile Farms at Catholic Health Mercy Hospital, Rockville Centre, NY, Smile Farmers tend 12 raised gardening beds at Mercy Hospital. Crops grown include lettuces, tomatoes, cucumber, eggplant, summer squash, string beans, herbs. All produce grown at Smile Farms at Catholic Health is donated to Mercy Hospital’s Family Care Program, where it is distributed to people who are food insecure.
Address: 1000 North Village Avenue, Rockville Centre, NY 11570
Phone: (516) 705-2525
Partnership established: 2023
Garden constructed: 2024