What’s Happening At AACORN

🎉 AACORN Nominated for Non-Profit of the Year!

We’re honored to be nominated for the 2026 Chamber’s Choice Awards!

Community support has helped us grow, expand opportunities, and make a meaningful difference in the lives of adults with intellectual and developmental differences.

You can vote once each day through August 14. Every vote helps move AACORN one step closer to becoming a finalist.

VOTE FOR AACORN TODAY

Welcome to AACORN – we are happy to see you

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Buy AACORN Swag!

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Learning New Skills

Each day, our participants and staff work together on a variety of farm chores and projects as we develop essential skills such as focus and teamwork. Our emphasis is on process rather than product.

Building Community

We spend time together participating in activities such as a daily walk as well as outings outside the farm. We love being part of our larger Kalamazoo community!

AACORN Values

Come be part of our inclusive, encouraging, and welcoming community. We love making new friends and connections here at AACORN!

Donations Welcome!

Have any ball jars hanging around and need some place to take them? Consider donating them to AACORN! We create all sorts of canned goods as part of our program with our farm grown produce.

Building Community

We see young adults who have not had many social opportunities choosing to hang out together like other young adults enjoy doing. This helps to build community among our participants.

Interacting with animals brings joy

There is no denying the value of the human-animal bond. Participants who do not have a lot of expressive language are able to be fully expressive with animals, who communicate in other ways too.

Expanding Options

Knowing that the choices for adults with developmental differences are very limited once they age out of school, AACORN provides a variety of indoor and outdoor activities.