Welcome to the Pay It Forward Farm

“Planting Seeds of Love and Kindness Everyday”

The Pay It Forward Farm is a multi faith community outreach for single moms and their children, promoting self reliance and sustainability as well as becoming a launching point for positive action in the world. The farm provides a place where mothers and their children can come and grow in mind, body and spirit in communion with Mother Nature and God.

Founder, Christine Collins, inspired by a dream in which she was instructed to “stop fighting your mother and honor her instead”, is working in partnership with her husband, Paul Rauch, and the Tampa Bay community to turn the dream of “Pay it Forward Farm” into a reality.

Christine’s mother, Nannie, became a single mother in 1970 when her husband Lloyd died in a boating accident. Nannie was left with six of nine children at home. She had no job, no education and very little money. However, Nannie always provided for not only her own children but for every stray child or pet that came her way. The Pay It Forward Farm is a tribute to Nannie as well as single mothers across the world who struggle to be the sole providers, nurturers and educators of their children.