Restoration Farm Vision and Mission

Kat and I attended the Small Farm Conference in Columbia, MO recently and we feel we need to update the mission and vision of the Restoration Farm.

Restoration Farm

To be operated by Larry and Kat Clark

Vision

Restoration Farm is going to be a small farm that has three separate operations. Each operation has a focus of restoring the lives of people. We will grow healthy foods and educate in their use, we will sell soothing lotions and soaps for the body and we will provide a safe place for God to heal servants from the battles of ministry.

Location

The farm will be located in either Kansas or Missouri within a 90 mile drive to a metropolitan area with a population of 35,000 or more. Our target audience will be customers who attend farmer’s market, local restaurants and other fresh vegetable outlets.

Target

Although our customers who shop at farmer’s market and our restaurant customers have many vendors who offer fresh vegetables to choose from during the summer months they do not have any opportunity to purchase those same fresh vegetables in the winter. By growing some vegetables during the winter by using hoop tunnels we will be able to provide a select group of customers those same vegetables in the winter.

Mission

The Farm will have three different areas of operations:

Restoration Farm will sell vegetables grown without using chemical sprays or fertilizers, goat milk products and range free eggs. In addition we will bake in a wood fired oven fresh breads using milk from our goats and herbs from our gardens.

Restoration Farm will be an educational farm that provides opportunities for teens and the disabled to get their hands dirty in the gardens or with feeding and caring for the animals. We will also teach others the techniques we use on our farm.

Restoration Farm will have a not-for-profit center for the restoration of Christian servants and wounded soldiers. Our aim will be to provide a safe place for wounded or tired servants and soldiers to come and seek healing from God. It will be free to those who come but we will welcome their help in the barn or hoop houses. Working on the farm will not be required but we will always accept a helping hand. The approach to helping these servants will be one of encouragement and not counseling. We are not seeking to be fixers of people but servants of servants.