Up on the Farm is a day program created especially for differently-abled adults in the community so that they may participate in farm-related activities on Mulberry Lane Farm.
Welcome to "Up on the Farm" – where nature, fun, and friends all meet up on a mountainside farm under wide open blue skies in Somis, California!
Located in Somis, California, Mulberry Lane Farm is a place that blooms, blossoms and abundantly gives all year round! Six acres of beautiful, uncommon, and in some cases even quite rare, tropical fruit trees and flowers and plants normally found in far off places all over the world live and thrive and sway in the breezes right here in Ventura County!
In providing real-life skill-enhancing opportunities for the participants, the "Up on the Farm" program initiatives include the operation of a small, on-line mail order seed shop - Bright Horizon Seeds - along with real in-person farmstand shops under the Mulberry Lane Farm tent at the Camarillo Farmers Market on Saturdays and the Thousand Oaks Farmers Market on Thursdays. The differently-abled farmers participate in all aspects of these two initiatives: planting and growing vegetables, weeding/pruning/watering gardens, composting, gleaning/saving seeds, packaging and labeling and mailing seed packets, harvesting fruit and cleaning and sorting it and taking samples home before loading the truck up for Thursdays’ and Saturdays’ markets.
“All share gifts here! All make a difference here!”
Photo by Shannon Prince Photography
Photos by Shannon Prince Photography