Honor, Heal, Nurture
Our passion for kids, family, our community, farm life, animals, the land, the environment, hard work, healthy living, and good nutrition is reflected in our motto. It underscores our goal of living lives of generosity and caring. With the work that we do providing healthy food for our community and job skills for youth, we hope to honor, heal and nurture all that is.
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Honoring the Past
We feel honored to have grown up on a family farm with a house and barn that date back to the 1870’s. We wish to recognize the hard work and dedication woven into the fabric of early American life. Check out our workshops that showcase the history of American farm families. Honor a farmer, past or present, by adding his or her name to our dedication wall.
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Healing the Present
Even though we are surrounded by such great abundance in our beautiful state and nation, we have people who go to bed hungry, who don’t have meaningful work and who suffer from debilitating diseases, including cancer and diabetes. While teaching youth how to grow their own food, we hope to address issues of food scarcity. We aim to offer workshops in nutrition and self care to cancer and diabetes...
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Nurturing the Future
Everyone says that “our children are our future,” but do have the skills they need to live happy, healthy lives? Our goal is to offer youth a farm education that emphasizes leadership and gardening skills – teaching them how to grow their own food and market it – while learning to respect themselves, their community and the environment. Would you like to be part of something big, something...
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Who We Are…
Our parents, Rudy and Ann Palenick were of Eastern European descent and first generation Americans. While born in Chicago, they spent their entire lives in Allegan and farmed with zeal, passion and honor. Their greatest gifts were in teaching us to care for the land, each other and our community. Strong, faith filled people; they instilled in us a strong work ethic and love of nature. As children of the...
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Rudy and Anna Palenick raised six children on a family farm in Southwest Michigan. Our parents were hard working, kind and generous people, who had the habit of feeding everyone who walked through their door. We love the idea of honoring their memory by creating a place that is rich in abundant, healthy food; laughter; hard work and fun.
We host live workshops on food preservation; nutrition; animal husbandry; historic farm life; sustainable farm and garden practices and more. We work with local schools to provide learning credit. We also help educate workers and create jobs for those that need them.
The Allegan Historic Farm & Learning Center is located at 2566 122nd Avenue, Allegan, Michigan 49010
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