Harvest
EP!C Harvest
After careful consideration and much deliberation, we have made the difficult decision to end aspects of our EP!C Harvest program and will not be moving forward starting with the 2025 season.
Our mission is to enrich the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and as the interests of people change, so do our program offerings. With the EP!C Harvest program we saw a downward trend of people supported using skills offered in their pursuit of a career, along with the commercial partnerships that helped to sustain the program.
Getting Connected to the Earth
While the scale of the program will be changing, a modified version will still be available to students in our transitions classes at EP!C and will continue to offer our horticulture classes at Illinois Central College through our Post Secondary program. We will continue to work in partnership with Bink’s Bees, which is currently housing their hives at EP!C and staff will continue to welcome other community partners that help to engage in unique activities.
Volunteering & Support
We thank the thousands of volunteers who worked in the garden over the years and hope you will spend time with us for other service opportunities.
Thank you to the grants awarded and customers who purchased over the years that made this elective program possible.
For more information about the Harvest program, please contact Sunny Pearson at spearson@epicci.org or 309-689-3607
