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Our Mission

        Victory Acres is a non-profit, family farm that provides good work while providing good food raised the way God intended.
        Victory Acres is a branch of Victory Inner-city Ministries (VICM) that is actively involved in community and economic development on the near-eastside of Indianapolis. VICM has been “making Christ visible” since 2000. The farm serves as a place to continue making Christ visible through agriculture via providing good work and good food.
        By “good food”: we provide our customers with farm products that are fresh, high-quality, certified naturally grown, chemical free and from a local farmer they know.
        By “good work”: individuals in relationship with Victory Inner-City Ministries (VICM) and Grant County Rescue Mission are provided with a place to rehabilitate and rebuild at Victory Acres.
While they are doing good work that is helping to produce good food, they are rebuilding their health and their lives via learning a work ethic, valuable job skills, vegetable production, marketing, and a host of other skills and lessons that come with running and working on a small diverse farm.

So, your CSA membership, donation, or volunteer time helps VICM in our efforts to help struggling families, troubled teens, and homeless neighbors. And in return, your CSA share is part vegetable and part knowing you are contributing to a larger vision of “making Christ visible.”

Our Agricultural Principles

1. OPEN DOOR: Anyone is welcome to visit the farm anytime (except Sundays, our day of rest).
2. GRASS-BASED: Our livestock is moved frequently to new "salad bars," offering nutritional superiority and practical stewardship.
3. LOCAL COMMUNITY: We are a social enterprise, which involves building relationships. One way we do this is by staying local. We do not ship food beyond our 100 mile bioregion radius. We should all seek food closer to home, in our food shed. Thus we encourage our customers to become involved via our CSA, our open houses, and other farm events.
4. NATURE'S TEMPLATE: Living out biblical creation stewardship involves mimicking natural patterns on a commercial domestic scale that insures moral and ethical boundaries to human cleverness. Vegetables are rotated, cover crops planted, and fallow fields are in place every year. Cows are herbivores, not omnivores. Pigs were created with a plow on the end of their nose, let them use it!
5. HEALTHY SOIL: Sustainable farming does not exist without a living, vibrant soil. Lots of earthworms and trillions of happy soil fauna are what we try to create via our growing methods. Soil is really what we are farming. Abundant soil fauna and a rich soil create good food.