A Zionsville-based nonprofit will spend $500,000 in grant funds from the IU Health Foundation Community Impact Investment Fund to create opportunities for adults with intellectual disabilities to find meaningful careers.
Watch Us Farm — a pilot program that provides on-the-job training at its greenhouse — will receive $500,000 over three years to support an integrated work, learn and live campus on E. 200 S in rural Zionsville. The expansion will be built on 25 acres donated by Henke Development Group.
Watch Us Farm's initial endeavor, started 10 years ago, is a hydroponic greenhouse. Fresh greens, vegetables, and herbs are raised via hydroponic gardening — a cultivation process where plants are grown in water infused with nutrients instead of soil.
Watch Us Farm Founder Janice Agarwal with some of the fresh greens grown at the Watch Us Farm hydroponic greenhouse in Zionsville. (Photo by Marney Simon)
Watch Us Farm founder and Executive Director Janice Agarwal said funds will establish a campus with an events center, a pumpkin patch, orchards, educational services and a greenhouse.
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