We are a land-based community centered on building material, social, and spiritual resilience through interdependent enrichment, generosity, and service. The principle of resilience through interdependence is applied in four key domains:

Up-building the land and ecology while supplying an increasing amount of our food needs through restorative agriculture practices. Working the land is a key focus of our community life. Our approach seeks not to maximize short-term output but to build a dynamic, managed ecology which over time enriches the soil and waterways, and provides food resilience to annual variations through a diversity of species, which themselves have mutually supportive ecological relationships. {Animal husbandry is an integral part of our agricultural practice.}

Dynamic, egalitarian decision-making with earned leadership. Fundamentally we want all members’ needs and voices to be honored and integrated into decisions about the community’s direction. At the same time, we value the expertise that certain individuals may have within certain domains. We seek to balance the efficiency of leadership with the empowerment and participation of each individual, calling on all members to speak and act from their most wise and community-minded perspective when involved in matters of governance. Likewise leaders are expected to maintain an attitude of humility and a focus on the benefit of the community as a whole.

Social cohesion and integration without suppressing individual’s autonomy and needs. We aspire to group cohesion through shared activities such as meals, ritual, song, and supported heart sharing. We aim to be a tight-knit group of people who care deeply about each other’s welfare and the success of the group as a whole. At the same time, we want each person to be free to bring forth the full range of their individuality and gifts. We value the diversity of perspectives that comes from letting each person be themselves and do not seek cohesion through conformity.

Spiritually, we aim to remain grounded in the sacredness of all reality and its manifold beings, experiences, and phenomena, to practice opening our hearts and minds to the autonomous needs of the many perspectives around us, deepening our intimacy with the realities of life and death, and cultivating our inner listening so that we may continually develop our ability to be medicine for each other and the world.