A Place to Grow: The Grove City Land Project
Greenhouses, an education center, and a farmers market — one campus where people on the spectrum work, learn, and feed their community.
The Vision
On this land in Grove City, Ohio, the Stynchula Foundation will build a working campus: greenhouses and outdoor growing fields, an education center where specialists and case workers can teach job skills and life skills, and a farmers market pavilion where the harvest is sold. A processing facility and storage & workshop keep the operation running, and a small bee farm rounds out the farm.
It is the same model that works today at Trey's Greenhouse — real jobs, real skills, real food — at a scale that can serve the whole community.
We Have Run Out of Space
Our current greenhouse has run out of room. So the Foundation is acquiring 10 acres in Grove City, in southern Franklin County — a land proposal is already in motion to secure a permanent home for this work.
Employment for people on the spectrum is our top priority, and this campus is how we grow it: more room to work, to learn, and to belong.
What It Makes Possible
More Families Served
Three times as many families as our current greenhouse can reach. At the farmers market, team members build confidence greeting customers — coached peer-to-peer by someone who understands.
More Real Jobs
How do we ensure the future of people who will outlive their parents? Train a workforce ready to work from day one — in the greenhouses, the fields, the market, and the workshop.
More Fresh Food
A food hub will gather produce from local growers and distribute it to food banks wherever there is a need — alongside our own harvests at the farmers market.
The Goal: $800,000
The total estimated cost of the project is $800,000 — that covers buying the land and building the campus. Every gift moves it closer: $25, $100, or more, directly funding soil preparation, seeds, tools, and training programs.
