CampOma Rural & Pumpkin Spice Urban EcoVillage
- Fellowship for Intentional Community
Mission: enviro-spiritual, healing camp.
My vision for the land:
A place where families and individuals contribute to a community of acceptance, love, joy, and a place for meaningful work. A place where individual's visions can become reality – so long as it melds with the the existing group and their parameters of being environmentally sound. A healing, smoke and drug free environment. Self sustaining, off the grid, able to grow most of our own food using a permaculture model. A strong commitment from members to deal with one's emotional stuff and a willingness to learn how to communicate compassionately and be respectful to everyone.
This is a healing center for the community, our guests, and the land. We aim to have a retreat in the woods with tree houses, cob, cord wood, strawbale and all sorts of fun eco-structures (ie. boat beds in the air, hammock camping, hobbit holes etc! - your imagination is the limit). A campground for individuals of all ages and families to learn about the natural environment and gain skills they can use elsewhere. An outdoor school program. Eco-businesses such as furniture making from the 100 acres of maple trees, natural building workshops, Llama packing, wilderness survival, mushroom growing for entrepreneurial souls are but a few ideas to generate our own economic security. Everyone will contribute what they can in time, talent, and treasure (perhaps 50% income sharing?). Work as little as possible for the money economy on the outside world and incorporate a fair trade system, including exchange for our services like food, helping build each other's housing, retreats, and workshops. Generate enough capital from business off the land to sustain ourselves and be debt and mortgage free. Yeah! We will serve as good stewards of the land to rejuvenate the previously clear cut forest and rehabilitate the creek. We intend to have a permaculture garden and food forest, and recruit interns to teach gardening and natural building to.
We want to extend ourselves beyond our boundaries to share our skills and tools with neighbors and visitors. We aim to establish eco-village zoning to be able to grow beyond 20 members to approximately 120 -130 members eventually. We will serve as a world-wide model of a new operating system which meets our social, economic and basic human needs without oppressing others, with cooperation rather than competition, which is life affirming as the fullest expression of what it is to be a self actualized human able to joyously care for each other, our neighbors and our environment!
From www.ic.org/directory/campoma/:
We have a city & rural community within the Portland area. Eagle Creek, just 25 miles outside of beautiful Portland, Oregon, is situated in the foothills of Mt. Hood on 120 acres, and is the home of a rustic, newly forming enviro-spiritual, healing, permaculture community and are hoping to start an Outdoor School program. In Portland we have a 4 bedroom house on 1/4 of an acre with 2 chickens currently and we are installing a geothermal greenhouse. Ideally, we are looking for 10 -15 pioneering individuals or couples to put energy into creating this community. We hope to be able to serve those who need a city connection at times and those who want to be more off-grid. The land is paid for already, so that is not a hurdle; however, everything else: road in, the buildings, water, energy sources, monetary resources etc. still needs to be created. I plan to build a home and put in some infrastructure in 2019. If you like to start with a completely open slate and create from scratch, then this community is for you! Open to all sorts of ideas provided they fit within the realm of being environmentally sound and are suitable to forestland. Consider furniture making, building treehouses and natural buildings, setting up a camp for kids and adults to learn about nature and survival skills, hosting healing retreats, doing llama packing, spinning your own wool etc. Really the possibilities are as large as your imagination. You must be emotionally mature and ready to learn, expand and stretch beyond your comfort zone to make a healthy community and create a true space of love.We plan to start small with 10 - 15 members and who knows if eco-village zoning becomes a legal zone to grow from there. THIS IS A DRUG AND SMOKE FREE COMMUNITY (including marijuana and limited to preferably no alcohol). That's the main liberation! Please submit your ideas and the gifts you bring for consideration as a founding member of this community to FionaRhea. If you're local to Portland, come join us up on the land most of the summer as we work on various projects. I recommend reading Creating a Life Together and the Ringing Cedar series for insights into building community. Come see what we're up to and see if you'd like to put some roots down and start a project of your own!