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Growing Home

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Mission: Growing Home is a vision of a beautiful and harmonious living situation where community members strive to live in tune with our Earth and each other.

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"Growing Home" is a forming intentional community/co-op home in Portland OR or the surrounding area. There is no location as of yet, and many details are up in the air right now. If the following descriptions sings to you, please get in touch to help make this dream a reality.

Growing Home is a vision of a living/working/playing space in accordance with its members ideals, including: sustainability, creativity, spirituality, gardening, DIY, giving, hospitality, freedom, self-sufficiency, consensus decision making, and paradigm-shifting.

We cherish nature and seek to live in harmony with the Earth. Growing our own food will be a major part of this project. We envision a greenhouse (made of reclaimed materials) where we will grow all sorts of yummy, nurturing foods. Cooking and eating together is imperative. A big kitchen table topped with fresh, vegan meals will be a gathering space for us and our wider community. Ideally we will become as self-sufficient as possible and produce our own energy as well.

We embrace non-denominational, non-dogmatic spirituality to foster a connection between each other and the planet, galaxy, Universe which is our home. Spiritual atheists are welcome as well. We may incorporate ritual as part of our daily lives.

Another major project will be the offering of hospitality. Our home may have elements of a hostel, where weary travelers can stay and integrate with our community. Guests can contribute with their energy and/or in other ways.

We also choose to embrace the intelligent use of technology (especially DIY and open-source technology!) for the benefit of all. We recognize technology as inherently neutral and choose to use it responsibly and with good intentions.

Creativity will be encouraged and space and time will be designated for playing music, creating art, and expressing ourselves however we chose.

We strive to improve ourselves, our lives, and our planet. Openness to new ideas is essential. We will never stagnate nor become burnt out, but rather transform in a constant process of evolution. In this way, we will become catalysts for the new world!

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Portland, Oregon
United States