Hiram Farm has begun construction on a new barn—the first permanent building to be built on the site. A grant of $20,000 was given by the First Christian Church in Wausean, Ohio to fund most of the construction costs. This group will also be sending a crew of skilled workers to Hiram later this month to work on the framing.
In addition, Hiram Farm is participating in Chase Community Giving which is a competition in which Facebook users can vote for up to twenty different non-profit organizations from a field of several hundred, with the organizations that receive the top 200 vote totals to receive grants of from $20,000 to $200,000. It sounds like it would be easy to organize five or six hundred Facebook users who are already members of the Hiram Farm Group and Hiram Farm Page on Facebook, to vote for the chance to raise that kind of money. It isn’t.
I’m not one who likes to hound people to get them to do what I want. You can see how infrequently I post to my own web-log. Turns out that’s what you have to do. So, in case any of you Hiram Farmers are reading this, consider it one more reminder to vote in Chase Community Giving. And, if you’re not familiar with Hiram Farm, you’re invited to join our Facebook Group—and vote for Hiram Farm in Chase Community Giving!