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Farm internship details & benefits
...As an intern you will: Plant, mulch, seed, weed, and other garden tasks Harvest, wash and pack veggies for farmers market Feed and care for animals Clean out barns and pastures Clean alpaca fiber Gather and process eggs Hands-on learning Farming revolves around the growing season so assigned work will naturally reflect these seasonal cycles on the farm. As an intern you’ll be exposed to all the different aspects of farming depending on the time of year you’re with us....
Being ‘Stickered’
...have a special message on the back of a label; my label last Saturday was the word ‘GORGEOUS,’ so I looked out at the autumn colored trees and whispered: ‘You are gorgeous; thank you for being you.’” On the opposite end of the question is Sister Janice Smith, “NO! I don’t look forward to being stickered. I am always so afraid that I will forget to go get them that it generally is another stressor to me. But it does help...
White Violet Center earns ‘Real Organic Project’ designation
...of enforcement of some vital USDA Organic standards to protect soil health and animal welfare, organic farmers rallied together to fight to protect the integrity of the organic label. This is what originally motivated WVC Farm Manager John-Michael Elmore to apply for this certification. “We (WVC) are already certified organic, so this became an extension of that. USDA organic certification is getting manipulated by large agri-businesses, and doesn’t fully represent the original intent of the organic movement,” John-Michael said. “While it’s still an important regulatory standard,...
Season of Creation 2022: Fair Trade and Climate Change
...Industry Consider buying second hand clothing, repairing and repurposing clothing, participating in a clothing swap, etc. Some stores that sell Fair Trade clothing include Athleta, Linden Leaf Gifts, Mata Traders, and MarketPlace: Handwork of India, Patagonia. Some brands such as Patagonia have a second-hand label – theirs is Worn Well. Check other stores and buy second hand through them. For tips on being fashionable inexpensively, click here. Read The Conscious Closet: A Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good...
Life is changed … not ended
...for letting go and preparing for the season ahead. Day by day, hour by hour, the leaves drop — sometimes with a quiet gentleness and sometimes harshly amidst strong winds and rain. They appear to die, yet rather, they are transformed into a rich mulch that nurtures the dormant life within the tree until once again spring arrives. So too, the barren trees, their bare branches reaching upward, hold life within in a different way, a way we do not...
From uncomfortable to comfortable
...Saturday morning. Bianca said she is glad she made the choice to keep learning during her break from classes. “It’s more fulfilling learning about the justice issues rather than being at home watching Netflix,” she said. Thank you to these Creighton University students for spending their fall break giving service at White Violet Center for Eco-Justice! Their week included weeding in the USDA certified organic gardens, harvesting vegetables, washing and bagging produce, tearing out tomato cages, putting mulch on strawberry...
Newsnotes
...weeded and mulched the crops; pulled out tomato cages; harvested, washed and bagged produce; fed the alpacas; and cleaned out the alpaca barn. They also volunteered at Helping Hands, a second-hand store in West Terre Haute, and played bingo with the sisters. From left are Bianca Mina, Alyssa Yuen, Lindsey Mack, Ameer Chughtai, and Will Moore. Sister Brigid Mary Hurley, SP, honored Sister Brigid Mary Hurley received the Father Patrick Hally Award Oct. 20, 2016. The award recognized her efforts...
University of Scranton: Week of service 2019
This May, students from The University of Scranton, a Catholic and Jesuit university in Pennsylvania, spent a week of service with the Sisters of Providence. During their time at White Violet Center for Eco-Justice they weeded, mulched and planted. They also did alpaca and chicken chores. They even got to experience the birth of a cria who was named Providence Ignatius in celebration of our ongoing relationship with Jesuit schools. Students also had the opportunity to volunteer at Providence Food...
Heading into the ‘Persephone’ Period
...percent mature if you want to harvest during the winter months. Keep an eye on those crops because they may need additional protection. You can use row covers or low tunnels in order for the harvest to carry into winter. Vegetables with roots will do well with additional mulch before a hard freeze to keep them warm. And only harvest in temperatures above freezing. Crops that can handle frost will be damaged if you harvest them before they’ve warmed up....
The Philosophy of Fair Trade
...challenge facing the world” with poverty and economic justice following at 44 percent. However, with fair trade, everyone benefits. If you regularly shop at grocery stores, check out the produce aisles by looking for the fair trade label on items such as avocados, bananas, chocolate/cocoa, coffee, and tea. Fair trade is not limited to agricultural products. You should think about fair trade every time you shop. “Visibility of Fairtrade products has increased since 2021 for nearly all major product categories...
Witness
...the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each of you, so the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.” A ‘Teachable’ Moment I believe Will LeCroy can teach us an essential truth: Who among us deserves to be labeled, judged, discarded even, according to the worst thing we ever did? Rather are we not called to honor human dignity and extend God’s loving design to all creation, to all...
Sister Margaret Heese (formerly Sister Margaret Bernard)
...told by some of her friends – stories known only to a few. Margaret talked Sister Barbara Bluntzer into getting her ears pierced. Sister Jean Fuqua felt honored that Margaret let her use the best sewing machine in the sewing room. Sisters Margaret Norris and Joseph Fillenwarth still can’t believe Margaret used the sewing machine to sew name labels on her clothes. As the youngest sister in a local community, band member Sister Joyce Brophy was given a pocket watch...