The objective of The Oliview Community Building Farm Project - the Oliview Project, for short! - is to grow a stronger society through lifting up young people, teaching through hands-on work and learning, building their capacity to use their unique skills and passions to grow food for their families and the broader community. Through the Project they learn practical skills they’ll use for the rest of their lives:

• Starting garden plants from seed, with very few inputs;

• Building soil, tending a garden, and respecting the plants’ process;

• Cooking fresh, delicious food to build personal independence; and

• The value of their own good, hard work, especially in supporting and providing for each other.

Through working side by side, we build relationships and trust. These relationships blossom into long-term connections, facilitating community reentry and improving longer-term educational, health, and overall life outcomes for participating youth and their families.

We would like to especially thank those who have supported The Oliview Project since the beginning, and trusted the seeds we were planting to bear fruit. Our fiscal sponsor is United Way of Northern California, and we are so grateful to them. Our funders include the Redding Rancheria, the California Department of Food and Agriculture, McConnell Foundation, the Smullin Foundation, and the Elevate Youth California program, part of the amazing Sierra Health Foundation.

We also benefit from generous individual donors. Please join us in making this program happen, and showing these youth the important role they have in our community. Donate today!