Support the Emergence of Sunny Joy Farm

Support the Emergence of Sunny Joy Farm — A Care Farm for Resilience and Regeneration

In a world that often feels overwhelming, disconnected, and extractive, Sunny Joy Farm is growing something different—something rooted in care, community, and belonging.

I’m Sunny Lindley, founder of Sunny Joy Farm, an emerging care farm in Talent, Oregon. Here, we nurture resilience—both personal and collective—through ecological arts, regenerative agriculture, and land-based living. At its heart, Sunny Joy Farm is a healing ground. A place for young people, elders, artists, and families to reconnect with their hands, their hearts, and the Earth. You can read about my personal story and why I wanted to start this care farm here. The origin story of Sunny Joy Farm video is on YouTube and you can watch it here.

We’re launching this community-centered vision now—and we need your help.

Sunny Joy Farm offers therapeutic and educational opportunities for individuals with a wide range of needs, especially youth with diverse learning styles, marginalized identities, and highly sensitive nervous systems. As a care farm, we integrate hands-on work with the land, creative expression, and meaningful mentorship in ways that restore relationships—to ourselves, to each other, and to the living world.

Our work is rooted in deep collaboration. Through my partnership with Alliance of Generations (formerly Boys to Men), we are designing intergenerational programs that connect youth with elders to pass on vital wisdom—and to welcome the possibilities of gender expansiveness and cultural healing that our time is calling for.

Through my partnership with Ohana Family Resource Center, Sunny Joy Farm will serve as a land-based hub for supporting the healthy neurological and emotional development of youth and their families—especially those navigating trauma, systemic barriers, or a need for alternative approaches to vocation, learning and growth.

Together, Sunny Joy Farm, Alliance of Generations, and Ohana Family Resource Center are asking a shared question:

How can we best support our youth in these times?

One of our flagship responses is the Resilient Youth Internship Program, which gives small cohorts of youth the chance to work and learn on the farm—earning a stipend while gaining skills in permaculture design, natural dye arts, food cultivation, entrepreneurial thinking, and community care.

With your support, we can:

Build infrastructure for workshops, gardens, animal systems, and eco-art programming

Pay youth stipends and provide hands-on materials for learning

Create inclusive spaces that welcome gender-diverse, neurodivergent, and marginalized youth

Offer land-based healing opportunities for youth and families through our nonprofit partnerships

Grow this 2-acre sanctuary into a shared community resource

Our initial goal is to raise $20,000 to build the foundation of this work—including youth stipends, tools, teaching materials, accessibility improvements, and basic farm infrastructure. While we are in the process of securing fiscal sponsorship, we've been fortunate to have a donor offer matching funds. That means that your donation doubles in impact. If you'd like to make a tax deductible donation of $250 or more, you may contact me to request a tax acknowledgment letter.

This is more than a farm. It’s a living, breathing response to disconnection. It’s a vision for how we can raise each other up—with soil under our fingernails, art on our hands, and stories shared across generations.

Donate today to help Sunny Joy Farm root deeper and grow stronger.

✨ Every contribution helps us build a resilient future—one relationship at a time.

With deep gratitude,

Sunny Lindley