The barber's chair has always been more than a seat — it's where men told the truth and remembered they mattered.
Young men sat down without direction and left with something they didn't have words for yet.
Grace in the Orchard is where that moment takes root. The conversation becomes a calling.
The care becomes a craft. And the craft becomes something you can stand on — literally.
Chris and Kanita Ginwright are personally purchasing the land that will become Grace in the Orchard — a working farm and training homestead dedicated to the growth of this community. Your donations fund the programs, the people, and the purpose that will live on it.
Land that feeds people and builds people at the same time.
On 3 to 5 acres in the mountains above Riverside — at elevation, where the air is clean and apple trees bear fruit — we are building a working homestead farm. Not a concept. Not a program. A real place with soil, water, animals, and shelter. A place where youth from our community come to learn trades they can carry for the rest of their lives. Where the food we grow feeds the people who grow it. Where self-sufficiency isn't an idea — it's the daily practice.
A place built by community for community to come back to.
Grace in the Orchard isn't a program that youth pass through — it's a place they return to. The young man who learns to tend bees at 16 comes back at 24 to teach someone else. The woman who learns to manage aquaponics leaves with a skill, a network, and a reason to stay connected to the land. This is tradeship — the passing of real skills between real people, generation to generation, rooted in a place that belongs to the community that built it.
We are acquiring the land now.
Through Riverside County's tax-sale program, we are identifying parcels at elevation — land that has been abandoned, defaulted on, and left unworked. We are bringing it back. The farm begins the moment we take ownership. The orchard goes in first. The bungalows follow. The full homestead is a 5 to 7 year build. Every step is intentional. Every dollar invested in this land is an investment in the next generation of self-sufficient people from our community.
The Ginwrights are investing in the land. You are investing in what grows there.