OASIS tlc is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote inclusion and acceptance of autistic individuals into their local communities by establishing environmentally exemplary farm centers that provide meaningful work, peaceful and healthy residences and community interaction.

Homesteading Skills for Survival and Employment

Animal Care -& feeding, watering, grooming. Using products from animals
(cheese, soap, eggs for scones)

• Chickens - feeding & watering, collecting and giving scraps, collecting/washing eggs, cleaning coops
• Goats - feeding, watering, milking, husbandry, cleaning stalls, grooming
• Horse - feeding, watering, grooming, cleaning of stall & paddock, using manure for compost

Computer Graphic Design - newsletter writing, art and photography

Farm Building - building and maintenance of animal coops, sheds, paddocks, plus other farm outbuildings

Farm Store - animal products, baked goods, produce from our garden and handmade items by students

Food Preparation & Menu Planning - Social Tea (school year) and Summer Breakfast Café. Baking in our wood burning brick oven: bread, pizza, scones for our Social Teas, Summer Breakfast Cafés and for sale in the Farm Store. Skills include research/create recipes & plan menu items, food shop. Job categories consist of Chef, Server, Host/Hostess, Dishwasher, Set-up/clean-up of food service, Cashier, Floral Arrangement

• Canning - hand picked fruit that we processed into jam and preserves.
• Cheese Making - using our goats' milk we make chèvre, for age blanc goat cheese
• Grain Grinding - rolling oats for granola, bread and oatmeal. Grinding flour for
• bread and pizza dough
• Yogurt - using our goats' milk

Horticulture - planting, harvesting, herbs, drying, composting, soil management, gardening outside and in our greenhouses

Landscaping/Property Maintenance - using tools like blowers, rakes, brooms, push mowers, and other manual tools and machinery. Pool Maintenance

Soap - using our goat's milk soap and our herbs grown & dried with grinded oats

Volunteer - soup kitchens, environmental clean up

Weaving - weaving on floor looms, inkle loom, rigid heddles to make yoga eye pad pillow covers, shopping bags plus straps and goat collars

Woodworking - building of birdhouses, milking stands, chicken coops and various projects