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Farmers Market
Proud member of the Terre Haute Farmers Market We love being a part of our local farmers market. With nearly 30 vendors to choose from, you’ll find seasonal produce, farm fresh eggs, locally produced meats, baked goods and so much more. Get to know your farmers and makers. Enjoy llive music and entertainment including some special themed days that make it fun for the whole family. Our certified organic vegetables and beautiful flowers are grown just a few miles down...
Immigration Through Another’s Heart
...know people who are immigrants. Meet them at your church, your library, or school. Support locally immigrant-owned businesses. Join a community committee that helps immigrants in your area. Learn some basic words and phrases in the immigrant’s language. The internet and cell phones provide convenient ways to initiate conversations quickly. Attend or coordinate a community event by providing education, awareness, and opportunity for donating to local non-profit charities helping the immigrant community in your hometown. Listen to the immigrant quote...
More ways to give
...recognized at all of those events. Would you like to be a partner as well? Please contact us using the form below. Adopt an alpaca Looking for that unique gift for that hard-to-buy loved one? Why not adopt-an-alpaca for a year and receive a certificate, photo and information of your newly adopted alpaca! A one-year, $100 adoption helps support the cost of medical care and housing of our alpaca herd. You can even visit your alpaca if you’re in the...
Can you help Bella and the alpacas travel more safely?
...raise $10,000 to buy the trailer and everything we need to go with it. Thank you so, so much for any help you can give! We alpacas (and our drivers) sure do appreciate the special care you give to us. Love and nuzzles, Bella P.S. If you want to chip in some extra money to help keep me and my friends in our best health when medical needs arise, we sure would appreciate that, too. I am so thankful for...
Polyculture. Or How I Stopped Worrying and Now Embrace the Unpredictable
...to buy our tomatoes because their own backyard ones weren’t producing (they were obviously experiencing the same weather-related issues that we were). Just when our supply was tanking, our demand was growing. Economics can be heartless sometimes. But, polyculture is also insurance. You shouldn’t put all your eggs in one basket (not that we had issues with our chickens this year, thankfully). Polyculture provides us with resilience. In a year where tomatoes let us down, we were swimming in a...
March 8, 2026: Third Sunday of Lent
Gospel: John 4:5-15, 19b-26, 40-42 Jesus came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there. Jesus, tired from his journey, sat down there at the well. It was about noon. A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” His disciples had gone into the town to buy food. The Samaritan woman said to him, “How can...
Our Future and Land Justice
...land seizures. Today, when buying or selling property, a legal process is followed to create a Deed of Ownership. This document formally transfers the property from the previous owner (the Grantor) to the new owner (the Grantee). The idea of quickly claiming land ownership by simply establishing clear boundaries seems unimaginable. However, looking at Earth’s timeline again, we must recognize that the Earth’s people were using the land long before the arrival of Christians and the subsequent land grabs. Documents...
Sisters eating local food
...from their own gardens is purchased from other local farmers, such as the Amish community in Rockville, Ind., and meat and eggs from the Royer family farm in Clinton, Ind. “It just continues to get better,” Deborah said about the efforts to buy locally. “As the local farmers’ businesses increase, their production increases. We’re also saving transportation fuel since it’s local.” Sister Adele Beacham lives in Owens Hall and helped break fresh green beans with other sisters one afternoon in...
Directions to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana
...turn at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College’s School of Equine Studies). Turn right on St. Mary’s Road. Proceed to main entrance (second gate) and turn right. Local roads All of the above directions take you to the main entrance, which is the point on the map marked “security.” Once you arrive at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, you’ll need to know where you are heading. This local map should help – you might find it useful to print it. Download a PDF of the map....
Saint Mother Theodore Guerin’s Story
...to teach the country children and visit the sick. Sister St. Theodore was an experienced teacher, but she knew little about attending the sick. She began to study medicine and remedies under a local doctor. In time she was able to treat many ailments as well as the doctor could. She also continued to excel as a teacher which led her students to excel. An inspector at the school noticed this and the Academy of Angers in France awarded Sister St....
Farm internship details & benefits
...In the spring, summer and early fall you’ll learn about planting, weeding, mulching and harvesting. You’ll also be involved in our local farmers market where we sell produce, flowers and the value-added products we create in our White Violet commercial kitchen. In the late fall and winter, when the growing season slows, you’ll find yourself with more time for indoor experiences such as fiber arts. Animals are tended to twice a day, every day. All interns participate in the care...
Marilyn Trobaugh
...Colonial Crest Nursing Center, Indianapolis (1976-83); Bookkeeper, Brookview Manor Nursing Center, Indianapolis (1983-86); Bookkeeper, Pine Tree Manor, Indianapolis (1986-92); Bookkeeper, Nova Care, Inc., Indianapolis (1992-97); Staff Local Residences, Center Business Office, Sisters of Providence, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (1997-2002); Local Residence Accounts Manager, Central Business Office, Sisters of Providence, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (2002-17); Treasurer for Sisters of Providence in Lourdes Hall, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (2017-21); Preparing bags for crocheted sleeping mats, Sisters of Providence, Terre Haute (2022-23), Prayer, Sisters of Providence, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (2024-25)....