Sunny Joy Farm

A Regenerative Youth Care Farm in Collaboration with Emerging Futures & Ohana Family Resources

Sunny Joy Farm is a care farm in Talent, Oregon offering land based education, ecological arts and therapeutic programs for youth families and the community. 

Our mission is to co-create resilient responses to the question, “How can we best support our youth in these times?” 

Our answer is, “We root resilience, harvest healing, and grow a future we can believe in.” 

Mission

Sunny Joy Farm exists to cultivate resilience—of land, of people, and of community—through regenerative growing, creative expression, and relationship-based care farming. Rooted in ecological stewardship and land-based creativity, the farm supports healing, belonging, and meaningful livelihood pathways for youth and community members through integrated agricultural, artistic, and therapeutic practices.

Who We Are

Sunny Joy Farm is a small, regenerative youth care farm grounded in resilience, creativity, land-based healing, and community connection. The farm emerged from lived experience—moving through hardship, burnout, and reorientation toward a slower, more intentional, earth-connected way of life—and carries a core belief: when people are met with care, creativity, and practical support, they can rebuild trust in themselves and their futures.

At its heart, Sunny Joy Farm functions as both a working production farm and a living classroom. The land is stewarded to grow dye plants, seeds, and plant materials for natural dyeing and ecological fiber arts. These gardens are managed using regenerative practices that emphasize soil health, biodiversity, seed sovereignty, and deep relationship with place. Agricultural production generates earned income while also supplying materials for education, creative practice, and therapeutic programming.

Youth Care Farming & Charitable Partnerships

Alongside agricultural production, Sunny Joy Farm operates as a care farm for youth, with a focus on young people navigating trauma, neurodivergence, marginalization, or disconnection from traditional educational pathways. Through the Resilient Youth Internship Program, youth engage in hands-on art-making, natural dye work, entrepreneurial skill-building, and seasonal farm activities, supporting them in developing confidence, agency, emotional regulation, and a sense of belonging.

Charitable and therapeutic programming is delivered in partnership with aligned nonprofit organizations, allowing the farm to remain financially sustainable while ensuring accessibility and accountability.

Through these partnerships, Sunny Joy Farm delivers mission-based programming under formal agreements and fiscal sponsorships, ensuring that therapeutic, educational, and care-centered services remain accessible to youth and families who need them most.

A Hybrid Model for Long-Term Resilience

Sunny Joy Farm operates as a hybrid model, blending earned income with charitable partnerships and regenerative land stewardship. The farm itself functions as a for-profit entity, while youth care programs are supported through nonprofit collaboration and grant funding. This structure allows the farm to remain nimble, values-aligned, and financially resilient while prioritizing care over extraction.

To further diversify income and invite broader community connection, Sunny Joy Farm is expanding into small-scale, low-impact agritourism, including a thoughtfully designed RV site, a barn loft accommodation, and a restored school bus lodging. These offerings provide earned revenue while allowing guests—artists, educators, families, and retreat participants—to experience the rhythms of farm life in ways that respect the privacy, safety, and therapeutic integrity of the land.

In addition to plant sales and care farming, Sunny Joy Farm produces naturally dyed fiber art goods and offers limited, values-aligned life coaching, extending the farm’s mission beyond the land itself and supporting creative practice, personal resilience, and intentional living.

Measuring Success

Success at Sunny Joy Farm is not measured solely in financial terms. Impact is reflected in:

• Youth experiencing increased confidence, agency, and emotional resilience

• Soil vitality, biodiversity, and regenerative land health

• Creative output and skill development

• The farm’s sustained capacity to remain a place of rest, learning, and renewal

In a culture that often prioritizes speed, extraction, and isolation, Sunny Joy Farm—alongside Emerging Futures and Ohana Family Resources—is cultivating something different: a slower, relational, and deeply rooted model of care that supports both present-day healing and long-term community resilience.