A Crooked Farm is a fully accessible community farming campus built intentionally to accommodate all abilities. The "crooked" aspect reflects the fact that no one is perfect, but that doesn't limit what's possible. Healing Farm Ministries will host programming on this campus, but it will also be open to the public to encourage understanding and community.

We have created a strategic partnership with Kid's Crooked House of Maine to design and build our Crooked Farm. It will feature uniquely designed structures which are perfectly useful and safe - but fascinatingly different from the norm. This "crooked" campus will include environmental features such as alternative energy and water conservation elements. It will also showcase all kinds of alternative gardening and farming techniques -- roof gardens, vertical farming, barrel-ponics, etc. -- thereby contributing to the attractional and educational lure of the facility.

Our Crooked Farm will also include a variety of unique facilities - General Store, Community Dance barn, workshops, fully accessible growing stations, chicken coops and more (see map at right). Each offers endless opportunities for meaningful work and socialization as well as opportunities to generate revenue through retail and rentals.

Take a look at our preliminary site plan, illustrating the various components and areas of the first Crooked Farm.

Here's what people are saying about Crooked Farms:

"The synergy between the missions of our two organizations was too great to ignore. We are incredibly honored to work with Healing Farms to develop a creative, unique, and inspiring environment that will achieve many ends and fulfills many needs - a self-sustaining program that caters to people affected by developmental disabilities, allowing them to flourish in a space that organically cultivates their natural strengths and talents."

-Glen Halliday, CEO, Kids Crooked House

"Crooked Farms is a perfect example of a collaborative community effort of local partners working together to address a number of important issues in a creative and sustainable way. The College of Charleston is proud to be a part of such an innovative project that will have an important impact on the quality of life of people in the Lowcountry."

-Kendra Stewart, Director, The Joseph P. Riley Jr. Center for Livable Communities at the College of Charleston

"Crooked Farms will be an integral piece of life's puzzle for young adults with special needs. We so often forget that people with disabilities want what we want...A place where they feel valued and able to create relationships based on a collective vision, shared values, and meaningful work. The Lowcountry is seriously lacking in terms of it's ability to provide an environment for adults with special needs to continue on their life journey after high school. Crooked Farms WILL give these young adults a place where they can begin to understand themselves as part of a larger society that values them for the adult that they have become and what they are able to accomplish."

-Suzy Arndt
Autism Itinerant - Transition/Secondary, Department of Exceptional Children
Charleston County School District

"Healing Farms and Crooked Farm Projects offer creative and promising programs for the Charleston area."

-McLeod Frampton Gwynette, MD
Director, MUSC General Psychiatry Clinic
Co-Chair, MUSC Autism Center Strategic Planning Committee

"Crooked Farms provide public spaces that are educational and recreational, but more importantly they are fully accessible. We have considered those with disabilities first while creating innovative, functional and engaging space."

-Michael McKaughan, Designer/Project Manager

"Crooked Farms will empower adults with disabilities, no matter how profoundly challenged, to participate in community and engage in meaningful work for the rest of their lives. As parents of an adult with challenges, this is a dream come true!"

-Winn & Mary Tutterow, Founders