We were on NBC4.
On November 6, NBC4 Columbus came out to Grove City to see the greenhouse, meet the people who grow here, and share our story with Central Ohio. Their piece — "Central Ohio nonprofit growing to help more families," by Eric Halperin of the NBC4i.com News Team — aired that evening, and we are grateful to everyone who watched, shared it, and reached out. If you missed it, you can watch it right here:
What the cameras saw
The Stynchula Foundation has supported families on the Spectrum for more than 25 years. For the last ten of those years, this greenhouse and field in Grove City have been our home. Here, participants learn real job skills — seeding, planting, tending, and harvesting — and the food they grow goes to local farmers markets, with what doesn't sell donated to local food pantries. It's meaningful work, a real sense of pride, and fresh food for neighbors who need it.
What a TV story can't fit
There's one thing the cameras couldn't show, because you can't see it: this land was never ours.
For ten years we have grown on borrowed ground. That arrangement let this work take root and flourish — but borrowed ground can be sold, and now it has been. The land beneath the greenhouse has been sold, and the Foundation has to be off it by the end of this year — December 31, 2026.
That puts everything built here at risk: the job training, the harvests, the market stand, and the food our neighbors count on. A greenhouse can't simply be picked up and moved in a winter month. If we don't secure a home of our own, the growing — and the growing people — stops.
The permanent answer
That's why the Grove City Land Project matters more today than the day we launched it. The project buys ten acres right here in Grove City — land the Foundation will own outright, for good. On it: bigger greenhouses, an education building, and a farmers market of our own, with room to serve three times as many families as we can today. The full goal is $800,000, and $300,000 of it is the land itself — the ground that makes everything else possible.
No one can sell owned land out from under this mission. Roots, once they're in your own soil, stay.
How you can help — today
- Give to Ground to Grow. Our GoFundMe is raising the land money first: https://www.gofundme.com/f/ground-to-grow-help-the-stynchula-foundation-buy-its-land — every dollar moves us closer to ground we own before the deadline.
- Hang an ornament on the Giving Tree. Choose an ornament on our Grove City Giving Tree and watch the future campus fill in, one gift at a time: https://stynchulafoundation.org/pages/giving-tree
- Share this post. You may know the person, church, or business that helps us close the gap. A share puts this deadline in front of them.
Ten years of growing happened on borrowed ground. The next fifty should happen on our own. Thank you — to NBC4 for telling our story, and to every one of you for helping us put down roots for good.
— The Stynchula Foundation