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Ministry Objectives:
- grow fresh, local produce that we can donate to local shelters, recovery houses and families in need
- create a sustainable enterprise to support The Samaritan Women’s ministry work
- overturn the Urban Food Desert areas of Baltimore City and improve the nutritional health of our urban brothers and sisters
- honor God’s creation and nurture our souls
Our farm has recently been expanded to include over 2 acres of cultivated farm and over 4,300sq ft of greenhouse/hoop house space. This indoor growing gives us the ability to do 12-month farming and increase our overall crop production, while teaching about food growing alternatives. In 2010 we also added chickens, bee-keeping, a small fruit tree orchard and 3,000 linear feet of berry vineyard.
The Samaritan Women Farm relies on volunteer labor. 
Every weekend dozens of volunteers come to work on the farm, doing everything from plowing, tilling, planting, seeding, watering, weeding, and harvesting. Starting in March 2011 we will be working on the first planting, with the hopeful anticipation of a big harvest in late May/early June.
We are grateful to St. Agnes Hospital and the Catonsville Sunrise Rotary Club for providing grant funding to install a farm irrigation system on our farm. It was quite an adventure getting over 600 feet of trenching dug (in the snow!), but what a difference the irrigation system will make for us this summer.
This year we will be working on refining our food production practices and pursuing an innovative pilot for distributing food into the households of the most needy, called FaithSTANDS.
In the future we will be pursuing grant support to build a community education center to teach people about urban gardening, ecology, and green practices.