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Heber to attend Al Gore’s climate change training
...throughout the year. Those tools will help the Sisters of Providence regarding their justice focus of care for creation and the environment.” Lorrie said she is planning for presentations to take place at White Violet Center throughout the year. “White Violet Center provides a natural platform for advancing education and advocacy around climate change,” she said. “I plan to have presentations here and throughout the community and to incorporate what I’ve learned into our events, such as Earth Day Celebration.”...
Sustainable farm living and learning
Current White Violet Center for Eco-Justice interns, from left are, Becca, Elaine, Alexis, Julia, Ezra and Sasha. Interns from New Jersey, Texas, Chicago, California, Louisiana, and Indiana are living in community and learning about sustainable agriculture at White Violet Center this summer. Here’s a quick introduction. Julia Duphiney, of Ocean Grove, New Jersey, is an animation student at University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Becca Goodman, of Indianapolis and Sullivan County, IN, is an environmental science sophomore who just transferred...
Growing passion for sustainable agriculture
When I first moved to White Violet Center for my internship, I was so nervous. I’ve never been away from home, and never lived with anyone other than my family. I’ve never lived or worked on a farm, never handled chickens or alpacas, and never met a nun. There were a lot of unknowns, but something drew me to the Woods. My interest in sustainable farming is what brought me here in the first place, but the well-rounded internship program...
Earth Day 2019
...students even sang and played music for everyone to enjoy. Providence Teen Ministry volunteered with Providence Healthcare Center. Teens helped PHC by transporting the elderly to shop at the Craft Fair and Linden Leaf Gifts. A few of the students even sang and played music for everyone to enjoy. Take Flight! Wildlife Education with Mark Booth, always so much fun to watch. The Farm Store at White Violet Center was hopping with shoppers. The Farm Store at White Violet Center...
Learn more about White Violet Center for Eco-Justice
https://youtu.be/KhnaYvo36wo Teaching, caring, inspiring for all creation. At White Violet Center for Eco-Justice at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, a ministry of the Sisters of Providence, you’ll find a USDA certified organic garden, orchards, berries, alpacas and fiber program, chickens, farm store, nature trail and more....
White Violet Center: Though the world may pause, life always moves forward
...in reciprocity with the world around me, and that doing something well means making the time to do it right. Picking pumpkins and winter squash But perhaps the most important thing I have learned here is that I am never done learning. I am so thankful for my friends at the White Violet Center who remind me to stay curious, to ask questions, and to never stop being amazed at the little joys and intricacies of the world around me!...
Volunteer Spotlight: Jack Worley and 10 years of #AlpacaLove!
...for the Sisters of Providence legendary alpaca herd. White Violet Center Director Mary Riley (left) and Alpaca Manager Tara Elmore present Jack Worley with the thank-you gift on behalf of the Sisters of Providence. Dedication It has been 10 years since he started volunteering. Jack still comes to White Violet Center every Saturday morning to clean and tend to the alpaca barn — even in the dead of winter! “Rain, snow, sleet, below zero? Not a problem for Jack. He...
What’s Coming Up!
...XVI on Oct. 15, 2006, and her feast day was designated for Oct. 3. She was the first Indiana saint and the eighth Catholic saint designated in the United States. We will also celebrate the 30-year anniversary of White Violet Center for Eco-Justice! The Sisters of Providence ministry is known for its alpacas, chickens, orchards, bee hives, nature trail, the 5-acre USDA certified organic garden and the White Violet Farm Store. Stay tuned for upcoming events regarding these 2026 celebrations!...
Creighton Students Volunteer at the Farm
...Food Pantry. Post-COVID 19 shutdowns, Creighton’s Schlegel Center for Service and Justice has sent a group of students to the Woods during their Fall Break. The students enjoy spending time on a new campus, learning about Saint Mother Theodore, meeting Sisters and volunteering at the Providence Food Pantry, Providence HealthCare, while spending most of their time helping at the White Violet Farm. The White Violet staff are grateful for the extra post-harvest assistance in getting the fields ready for winter....
Let us be the people Jesus describes, as he sends his disciples out on Mission
...our white privilege allows us to avoid. It’s not our death as white folks, so we have to be especially careful of falling into that trap. It’s not our death as white folks, so it can’t be our life that it’s prefiguring. To those white folks listening, we get to choose. And if we want to choose life, we must first choose death. We must choose the death of our racist systems and the death of white supremacy. We must...
Sister Joseph Ellen Keitzer: Blessed by the African American Catholic Community
...quite a variety of different opportunities.” Some may deny white privilege exists, but not Sister Joseph Ellen. “It was at that time that I realized the white privilege that I had. Because I certainly have used my white privilege for other people.” She would see her parishioners getting the runaround, denied services they needed. “All I had to do was go to the office and say, ‘I’m Sister Joseph Ellen from St. Angela School,’ and it was no problem.” What...
A call to discernment
...school math in Texas before coming to the White Violet Center for Eco-Justice at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods to serve as an intern. While at White Violet Center, Tracey worked in the garden and tended to the alpacas. Prior to coming back to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, she served as an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer with Indy Hunger Network, where she developed fresh food access and nutrition projects. But the path of consecrated life called her back to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, even though she’s still contemplating...