Shared Commitment
Members and farmers carry the farm together, with support pledged in relation to the farm's real needs and each household's ability.
Temple-Wilton Community Farm
Aims and Intentions
Temple-Wilton Community Farm was founded around a shared responsibility for land, food, farmers, and community life. Its aims continue to shape the farm's CSA model and form one agricultural expression of Cadmus Corporation's wider charitable mission.
Community supported agriculture as a living relationship.
TWCF's founding intention places the farm within a community of families who share both the gifts and the responsibilities of agriculture. The farm is not only a place where food is produced, but a social and ecological relationship among farmers, members, animals, soil, and land.
The farm's history describes an approach in which the actual needs of the farm are brought to the community, and members pledge support according to their circumstances. Food, money, labor, care, and gratitude are held in relation rather than treated as isolated transactions.
Core themes.
The farm's intentions meet ordinary farm work: soil, vegetables, animals, shared meals, and care for one another across seasons.
Land Held for Farming
The farm's land relationships protect agricultural use and make long-term care possible beyond private ownership alone.
Food as Gift
The farm invites a view of food as part of a wider cycle of nourishment, work, weather, soil, and community trust.
Farm as Organism
Crops, animals, people, fields, compost, hay, and pasture are tended as interdependent parts of a whole farm life.
Education and Encounter
The farm creates opportunities for children, adults, members, and neighbors to meet agriculture directly through the seasons.
Continuity
Founded in 1986, the farm continues to serve member families and the broader southern New Hampshire community.
With gratitude to Tatum Hammer, longtime TWCF member, for her loving photography.