Our mission is to impact our local community by providing culinary training and educational opportunities at our world class kitchen and restaurant facility.
Farrand Farm is a 501c3 non profit. Our mission is to impact our local community by providing culinary training and educational opportunities at our world class kitchen and restaurant facility and our partnering organic farm.
The southern part of Michigan is rich in agriculture large and small. Farrand Farm will bring farmers, eaters, growers of all sorts to dive into how we can impact how we eat, our health, and create strong economic systems around food.
2025 Goal: $250,000
Culinary Training
The key program Farrand Farm will focus on in our first year is culinary training through five week internships for individuals at various levels. During this five week period interns will learn a variety of critical skills related to farm to fork cooking. Including hands-on work on an organic farm, kitchen skills, understanding ingredients and sustainable cooking models and what it’s like to work with award winning chefs in a higher end environment.
Butternut Sustainable Farms
Local Food Systems
Great chefs understand the intricacies of food production and its movement from farm to plate. It’s critical to understand local and global food systems in an effort to challenge and change our mentality around where our food comes from and how we eat.
Our farm partner Butternut Sustainable Farm will assist in providing educational opportunities at various levels through hands-on work and learning.
Program currently being developed: Farm Internships, Sustainability and Organic Farming, Farm to Table Food Systems, Farm to Schools, Culinary training.
Sustainable Practices
Farrand Farm will teach hands-on sustainable practices at running a kitchen and how to be stewards of the planet. We plan to work closely with MSU extension and other agencies to bring in-depth learning opportunities to our interns.
Our Values
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Community
We believe Farrand Hall is a place to gather, to meet, to make new relationships, and is a safe space for everyone.
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Education
We believe in continuous learning through collaboration and partnerships.
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Impact
We believe Impacting our local community in a positive way creates meaningful change.
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Diversity
We believe in providing a safe space for anyone to learn and grow into the best person and professional they can be.
Our Vision
The vision for Farrand Farm is to create aworld class culinary training facility in St. Joe county. Over the next 5 years we will expand our ability to train more students and provide more programs to the public surrounding food security, healthy eating, sustainable farming, and modern cooking techniques. We believe we can be a major economic driver in the region through training a new generation of chefs, some of whom will remain in the community to build their own restaurants. Additionally, we believe a facility that provides the public with access to programs focused on food, agriculture, gardening, horticulture and more will be a major source of activity and excitement drawing folks from all over to visit Colon.
Contact
Feel free to contact us with any questions.
Email
hello@farrandhall.com
Phone
312-307-7994