Our Mission

Slack Farms Foundation, founded in 2018, provides farm access and educational opportunities for our community and sponsored interns. We support the work of Slack Farms as an independent 501(c)3 charitable organization, including Slack Farm’s programs of Internships, Workshops and Trails at Woodlawn Farm and Jubilee Farm in St. Mary’s County, Maryland.

Slack Farms Internships

Slack Farms Internships began eight years ago with three students from HBLA Elmberg College in Linz, Austria. From this start with three WOOFERS, we have over 50 alumni from Austria, Ukraine, and the United States. We offer a 4 week summer internship program; if you are interested please send an inquiry to us here. In 2022 we began a special Ukrainian Internship program to accommodate the Ukrainian students studying in the U.S. who cannot return home due to Russia’s war on Ukraine.

SlackWorks

SlackWorks grew out of a USDA Rural Business Development grant emphasizing farm-based skills which we teach to local participants in small workshops. Our interns make these programs possible, through landscape and garden planning and management, by employing small tools and equipment efficiently and safely, helping us to develop teaching modules which are useful from rural farm to urban home. We offer a membership for community members to join us regularly for our workshops as well as trail walks (see Walk the Farms below).

Walk the Farms

Walk the Farms is a partnership of small farms who welcome visitors to experience the time-honored tradition of walking the farm. This is a new program just underway with Slack Farms in the lead, thanks to a grant from the Maryland Department of Commerce Office of Tourism. We are just opening up the full 5k trails at Woodlawn with bridges, points of interest and trail markers.

Spend a day by yourself or join a trail outing at Woodlawn’s WALK THE FARMS: starting at the Jabberwalky Trail through the River Bamboo, then out into the open and back into woods where the 1957 Chevy is half-sunk in the marsh, then to Slack Dibski Forest, across all the bridges in the Six Bridges Woods, then along the byway to the Flapdoodle Pines, before heading home over the Cattywampus Bridge. WALK THE FARMS is an adventure in farm country splendor!