Two volunteers help cultivate Spring Forest's three acres dedicated to growing fruits and vegetables, in Hillsborough, N.C., Wednesday, May 29, 2024. This farm grows food, supports refugee resettlement and provides outdoor retreats for people in the healing professions. (Yonat Shimron/Religion News Service via AP)
Chef Shanetta Edwards prepares a lunch in the outdoor kitchen with bounty from the Spring Forest farm in Hillsborough, North Carolina, on May 29, 2024. This farm grows food, supports refugee resettlement and provides outdoor retreats for people in the healing professions. (Yonat Shimron/Religion News Service via AP)
Joan Thanupakorn pushes her daughter, Nora, on a swing hanging from a tree during a Grow It wellness program for children at Spring Forest in nearby Hillsborough, N.C. on May 29, 2024. (Yonat Shimron/Religion News Service via AP)
Participants in the Grow It wellness and nutrition program walk through the woods at Spring Forest, a farm and new monastic community in Hillsborough, N.C., Wednesday, May 29, 2024. This farm grows food, supports refugee resettlement and provides outdoor retreats for people in the healing professions. (Yonat Shimron/Religion News Service via AP)
Youth feed lettuce to goats at Spring Forest farm in Hillsborough, N.C., Wednesday, May 29, 2024. This farm grows food, supports refugee resettlement and provides outdoor retreats for people in the healing professions. (Yonat Shimron/Religion News Service via AP)
Grow It organizer Leah Reichardt-Osterkatz, right, helps children make smoothies from strawberries they picked, plus kale grown on the farm, at Spring Forest in Hillsborough, N.C., on Wednesday, May 29, 2024. (Yonat Shimron/Religion News Service via AP)