WHAT MAKES OUR CSA SPECIAL?

Our Clients!

Your enrollment in our CSA provides work for our special needs clients, local area classrooms, as well as summer interns who are a mixture of special needs young adults and typically developing young adults. They all learn to work together doing a wide variety of tasks, from planning what and where to grow, to starting seeds inside, planting outside and in the greenhouses, weeding, watering, harvesting, washing produce, packing up CSA shares, and more. You would be impressed with what they can accomplish together in a day!

Our Staff, Board, & Volunteers!

Rachel Vignon is our Vocational Habilitation Specialist and she serves on the Goodness Grows Board. She works with all of our clients and interns, year round, making Jungle Jam, teaching job skills, and taking care of
everything we grow. Rachel is a local who grew up in a dairy farming family, so she brings plenty of experience!

Kitty Kromer is our Goodness Grows Board President. In her day job, Kitty is an Educational Coordinator in Columbiana County. She has worked with special education students for years, spending many years as a classroom teacher. She used to bring her class to Goodness Grows, and they even designed and built our Blooming Butterfly Garden! She is also the mastermind behind our Canfield Fair Award Winning Jungle Jam.

Jill Snyder serves on our Goodness Grows Board as the Treasurer, works for Goodness Grows doing data entry and finances as well as working with the clients, and is also the mom of one of our first clients. She has been an active volunteer for Goodness Grows for many years and is always willing to lend a hand wherever she is needed.

Sue Weaver volunteers to do many things for Goodness Grows. She is always willing to staff a farm market, a craft show, or any event. Her kind and friendly manner makes her a natural Jungle Jam salesperson! Sue also helps out with additional tasks when she can, especially when it comes to making Jungle Jam. Our clients love it when she comes to visit! Before she retired, Sue spent her career working in special needs classrooms with kids of all ages.

Tina Swarm is a new member of the Goodness Grows Board as well as a volunteer. Her son attends GG, her husband works here, and she is passionate about cooking & baking - we are lucky she loves to share her skills with us!

Cameron Fortune, longtime GG intern, Cam also serves on the board. We're excited to have him give us a younger person's perspective! Now a special education teacher and in his own classroom, Cameron brings many gifts and experiences to the board. 

Erin Rossi, longtime friend to GG, is the newest member of the board, joining in late 2025. We are happy to announce that Erin is also on the GG staff, working directly with the clients. A former teacher at Heartland Christian School in Columbiana, Erin brings a love of learning and teaching as well as a wealth of science knowledge to us!