Hope Springs Farm

10/21/2025

Our growers are giving all the spooky vibes in the craft room this month! From pumpkins and black cats to bubbling cauldrons. Refining their fine and gross motor skills one fall craft at a time! 🍂

10/20/2025

This Friday 👻 Join us if you dare, you will be in for a wicked good time! Costumes are encouraged!

10/12/2025

We are at for the Area M Fall Classic! Stop by our tent in the Olympic Village today to meet our newest additions, Tiny and Smores. They are a bonded pair of guinea pigs we adopted earlier this year. We brought one of our feathered friends, as well! 🐔 We are giving away one free raffle ticket to each person who visits the tent to win some merch and a goodie basket of items made by growers at the farm 💕

09/20/2025

Make your weekend and resources count!! ⌚️We know it’s difficult to add yet another thing 🗓️ to your things to do. Start small, and don’t let anyone change your mind of how you’re impacting your neighbors 🏡. We see you central PA ❤️‍🔥


🗓️ Drive One for Your School ($30 for each test drive)
⏰ Saturday Sept 20th 8a-Noon
📍 palmyracougarsfootball/ maguires_ford_of_hershey, Palmyra High School parking lot

🗓️ Fill-a-Ford for The Caring Cupboard
⏰ Wed Sept 17th-Thurs Sept 25th
📍 maguires_ford_of_hershey Showroom, Palmyra, Pa

🗓️ Hot Dog sale benefits Palmyra Lady Cougar Basketball
⏰ Sunday Sept 21st 8a-2p
📍rednersmarkets, Palmyra, Pa


🗓️ Brown Plus Co****le Tournament benefits United Way of the Capital Region
⏰ Friday Sept 26th starting 430p (contact for registration)
📍Contact brownplusadvisors for details

🗓️ Su***de Prevention Walk
⏰ Saturday Sept 27th starting 930a
📍Lion’s Lake Park via , Lebanon, Pa

🗓️ Sunday Supper (Free Community Dinner)
⏰ Sundays in Sept 430p-530p
📍Lebanon Rescue Mission, Dining Room, 1223 Bittner Blvd, Lebanon, Pa


🗓️ Mr. Sticky’s Sticky Bun Sale (contact to order)
⏰ Tues/Wed Nov 11th & 12th Pickup 5-8p
📍, Campbelltown, Pa

🗓️ Fall Harvest BBQ benefits Hope Springs Farm
⏰ Sat October 4th 9a-3p
📍, 201 Trail Rd., Hershey, Pa

🗓️ Lebanon City Firefighters Gold Tournament benefits
⏰ Saturday October 11th starting 1p (register prior)
📍Pine Meadows, Lebanon, Pa

🗓️ United We Walk benefits
⏰ Saturday October 4th 9a-1230p
📍Penn State Harrisburg, 777 W. Harrisburg Pike, Middletown, Pa

🗓️ Lebanon Valley Chamber of Commerce Open House
⏰ Wednesday October 15th 10a-2p
📍Lebanon Valley Chamber of Commerce, 989 Quentin Rd. Suite 1, Lebanon, Pa

🗓️ Chicken BBQ & Bake sale benefits Det. Rian Bell cancer battle (contact DTPD or [email protected] for presale)
⏰ Sat October 18th 11a-2p Pickup
📍, Hershey, Pa

🗓️ Palmyra’s Great Give
⏰ Thursday October 9th All Day
📍, Online and Participating Nonprofit

09/18/2025

We will be there with delicious soup made by our Growers with produce grown in our garden! We hope to see you there to support not only our program, but to also support our amazing firefighters at the Hershey Volunteer Fire Company

The Hershey Partnership’s Soup Cook-Off is a fun fall family event in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Buy your tickets now or sign up to cook at this year's event!

09/17/2025

One of our staff members captured this incredible photo of a rainbow over the garden today! The farm is truly a magical place 🌈

We welcome you to come experience it for yourself at our Fall Harvest Barbecue Fundraiser on October 4th from 9a-3p. There will be delicious food, a large basket raffle, animal activities, and more fun for the whole family!

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09/08/2025

To Our Amazing Team,

Thank you for the love and dedication you pour into every day on the farm. You help our growers shine, discover their strengths, and feel proud of the work they do.

Your kindness touches not only our growers, but their families and our whole community. You are the heart of our mission, and we are so grateful for you!

Direct Support Professional Appreciation Week 2025 has begun with a special breakfast for our staff this morning, along with awards, games and gifts throughout the week to remind our DSPs how incredible they are and what their hard work and commitment to our program means to us!

Please join us in sharing your appreciation for our hardworking staff and all those in our community working directly with our individuals continuing to make the world a better place!

09/06/2025

This week, we will be at Snitz Creek! 🍔🍕 Come join us for their Dine to Donate on Thursday, Sept 11th. We will also have a few baskets to raffle while we are there!

Enjoy a meal at Snitz Creek Palmyra this Thursday, September 11th, between 11:30 am–9:00 pm and we’ll donate 10% of the food sales to Hope Springs Farm! 🐐 Your support helps adults with developmental disabilities thrive through community and farm programs.💙 Delicious food, good vibes, impactful giving. Come by and dine for purpose!🍴

08/29/2025

✨🎉 Who’s coming to our FINAL Market of the 2025 season? 🎉✨

We’ve got a full line-up of vendors + family fun activities waiting for you this Saturday at Market on Chocolate! 🛍️☕🍦

💪 Morning fitness at 9 am with Maximize Health and Fitness
🛍️ Local vendors + artisans
🟦 All-you-can-bounce wristbands for $5 with Big Bright Bounces
🧘‍♀️ Kids yoga with Next Generation Yoga with Cindy Lesher at 10 am
🐻 A special visit from COCO of the Hershey Bears!
🚚 Yummy Food Trucks
🎶 Live Music with Corina Rose at 11 am

It’s our last market of the year — let’s make it the best one yet! 💛

📍 ChocolateTown Square Park adjacent to the Hershey Volunteer Fire Company
🗓 Saturday August 30 | 🕘 9:30 am-1:30 pm

08/29/2025

REMINDER! This weekend is the FINAL Market on Chocolate of the season! We are so grateful to everyone in the community that has support our program and our individuals. We have made great friends, both local and out of state, and established new partnerships with the other vendors. We are going to miss these weekends, but we look forward to bringing fun new items next year!

Thank you to our event coordinator for putting the tent together each weekend, to our facilitators creating the projects with growers, and to the staff who have volunteered their time at the tent. We couldn't have done it without you! 🥰

🌱 This weekend at Market on Chocolate, we’ll be joined by Hope Springs Farm .

Hope Springs is a nonprofit working farm that empowers individuals with intellectual disabilities through purposeful work — from caring for animals to growing plants and trees. 🌼🐐

Their booth will be stocked with fresh produce, jams, handcrafted items, and more. Come shop and support their mission!

💵 Please note: this is a cash-only booth. Plan ahead so you don’t miss out!