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• Fellowship for Intentional Community

Alpha Farm is an extended-family-style community on 280 acres in the Coast Range of Oregon. Consensus, our decision-making process, is also a metaphor for the ideal world we seek to create here--and so help create in the larger world. We seek to honor and respect the spirit in all people and in nature; to nurture harmony within ourselves, among people, and with the Earth; and to integrate all of life into a balanced whole. We value service and work as love made visible. Group process is a strong point; we meet regularly for business.
Founded in 1972, we average five to fifteen adults and one to three children. New people participate in an internship of three or six months followed by a year as residents (trial members) before becoming eligible for membership. Please contact us first about available spaces before coming down for a visit. Members and residents work primarily on the farm or at various outreach activities around the greater Deadwood Community (contract mail delivery, contract forestry projects, etc.) or occasionally in paid work off the farm. All income and resources are held in common. We are experimenting with different housing patterns, particularly for families; individuals have private rooms, while other living space is common; weekday evening meals are communal.
We are open to new residents; visitors are welcome for a three-day initial visit. Please schedule a visit well in advance as space and resources are limited. Please check out website for more information on visiting and membership.

Links:

• Alpha Institute:
  Committed to practicing and teaching consensus decision making and meeting facilitation.


• Alpha Farm

Address

Physical Address

92819 Deadwood Creek Rd

Deadwood, Oregon 97430-9706

United States

Organization Type

• Intentional community

Tags

• Commune (organized around sharing almost everything)