Quivira Farms

Quivira Farms is an integrated multi-dimensional program that provides holistic support for special needs persons and helps supply affordable, nutritious food for dozens of targeted low-income urban neighborhoods. It is able to accomplish this through four inter-related social enterprise components; special needs community farm, urban farming, visitor's center, a petting zoo and a memory garden.

The Quivira Farms are designed to provide support for special needs populations and to create an economically self-sufficient farming community to cover at least 90% of the program's operating costs. Over the next 10 years, Civitan Foundation intends to develop at least one farm in each of three regions of the state – metro Phoenix, metro Tucson and at the 15-acre Camp Civitan in Williams, near Flagstaff. Civitan has implemented extensive improvements at the Williams site and they are in the process of acquiring additional 12 to 20 acre sites in metro Phoenix and metro Tucson for new Quivira Farms.