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Save the Food Award
TIKKUN FARM
By | Jenny Lohmann
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his year’s Save the Food award honors Tikkun Farm in Mt. Healthy. Owned by
Mary Laymon and Greg York, they are continually building upon their
nonprofit’s mission of healing people, repairing community, and restoring creation.
They do so in a multitude of ways, such as donating land for refugees to garden;
providing meals and cooking skills to the community; being a home for rescued
farm animals; and creating compost to turn back into the land thus providing more
nourishment for people and animals.
The pandemic has changed the way Tikkun Farm
accomplishes its mission. From having taught
cooking skills on-site borrowing the La Soupe
concept “Cincinnati Gives a Crock”, Tikkun offered a
cooking skills class with donated perishable items
not utilized at a local pantry. Saving the surplus food
from going bad, a volunteer chef taught participants
the skills needed to create nutritious meals. While
prepping and cooking, the participants also learned
about dealing with toxic stress and strategies to
reduce trauma resulting in each participant not just
building kitchen skills but coping mechanisms to
nurture the whole person.
No longer able to safely meet in groups, Tikkun
sought other avenues to help people. Beginning in
March, volunteers took the surplus food and prepared
the ingredients for crock pot meals to be delivered to
those in the community who would benefit from the
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