Over the past 20 years, MA’O has witnessed that connecting youth to land generates health, sustainability, and resilience with and for the community. To learn more about these connections, in 2017 we started a collaborative learning journey with the Mauli Ola Study - an exploration of the longitudinal social and health impacts on YLT interns while they are on the farm. The working theory that emerged from this research is that MAʻO’s holistic intervention changes interns’ health and eating behaviors and improves their health.